Installing firewire card- caution?

I've been having problems with a Miglia a/d converter. Miglia thinks it's because of my firewire card -which btw works perfectly with other a/d converters- and now they sent me a firewire card to install. They think that will solve the problem.
For the first time in years I have had a very stable system (new G5 quad) and I am anxious about messing it up. What are the chances of this PCI firewirecard conflicting with/damaging the other hardware? (I realize I'm being a little paranoid about this but there you go, after years of troubleshooting...)
TIA,
McWolf

http://www.miglia.com/products/expansion/alchemy_fw400/index.html
The above is the card. That's not a PCI express card, is it?
Miglia knows I have a QUAD but I wouldn't be surprised if they sent me the wrong card...
It has to explicitly say Express? How do you recognize an Express card?

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I originally had issues with one of these firewire cards in that the windows drivers wouldn't load properly so I bought a new PCI firewire card.
The new card was slightly better but this is what happens:
if i boot the system 10 times then:
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Then, one day it worked. And it worked for a week and it worked on the three different bootable partitions on my PC (all running win7 pro).
Then, it stopped working, on all 3 operating systems all at once, and i'm now back to the scenario i described earlier.
I know the firewire device works 100% because i've tested it on another MSI MB that has inbuilt firewire. I'm not 100% sure about the firewire card but it is new and this has happened with two different firewire cards.
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It could well be an incompatibility with the card.
Perhaps you want to try one of the later beta BIOS' in this thread https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=150368.50 Always use the forum flasher >>Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<< Do a CMOS clear before and after a BIOS flash.
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I installed the drivers before turning on my firewire device, it was plugged into my firewire port but it wasn't turned on, could this have still messed it up? And yes I have went to the multimedia menu and set the FW soundcard and everything seems to be running fine it recognizes it and everything there is just no sound. It may be something very small and dumb I am overlooking, I am going to reinstall the drivers with the device unplugged tonite and see if that helps. Thanks for the help
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Ok, so I finally upgraded my external USB sound card with the Profire 610 firewire unit from M-Audio.
While I am very impressed with the sound, I am not very impressed with what seems like erratic behavioiur from the fans on my MacBook Pro (mid 2010 - i5 processor, 2.4GHz, 4GB memory).
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I seem to remember reading about people having trouble with firewire sound cards on their 2008 (I think) models of the MBP, but, as far as I can tell, the problem is still real.
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It sounds a lot like the behavior one see's on a MacPro with a internal card installed.
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Here is the "Maintenance & Service Guide" for the computer. On P.2 it shows in the right-hand column that there are 3 PCI Express x1 slots on the motherboard. Here is a Firewire card that should work for you.
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If you have a pcmcia slot, buy the card. Slide the card into your computer and start up. Put the camcorder on the card and your fw drive on the port built-in to your computer. Even if this does not solve the timecode issues, it will save you other headaches in the future.
Question. Does capturing to your internal drive solve the timecode issues you are having?
I disagree with the advice of capturing to your internal drive and transfering the project after the fact. There are a bunch of reasons why, and all of them are qualified, so I hesitate to go further until I know whether or not capturing to the internal drive is making your timecode headaches go away.
I suspect capturing to the internal drive will not help the timecode issues which will make the whole point moot. But hopefully I'm wrong :>
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When you talk to representatives from Apple, you have to be conscious that if they are not specialists in the area you are focused on their advice may be based on general recommendations from an IT or home user perspective. There is a difference between talking to a sales person on the floor of the Apple Store and someone from the Genius Bar. And the person at the Genius Bar may have a tremendous background in network installations, but never have opened FCP. Or you might get lucky and get a FCP savvy genius, who would be a bit weak when talking about some other area.
This is not a knock, just a reality. It is difficult to be deeply conversant with even one area. It is not realistic for the generalists you usually deal with to know the best answers to very specific questions.
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I noticed that this list only shows versions of Lightroom 3 and above. Would a D1x have found compatibility with an older version of Lightroom? If so, might this compatibility be carried forward?
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