SIIG FireWire 2-Port PCIe (NN-E20012-S2)

Anyone looking for a quick and easy solution to using a FireWire mixer should be pleasantly surprised by this card. I had ran into a whole list of problems on my old computer with the last PCI card I used. After a good amount of research I was confident that this card would work just fine on my new computer with an Intel I7-7700k MSI Z270 Gaming Pro carbon mother board and an Allen And Heath ZedR16 FireWire mixer. It was literally plug and play...That never usually happens with me and hardware this old. I was so happy I couldn't believe it. I wish I could personally thank Allen And Heath for keeping their driver support up to date with windows 10. Unlike other companies and boards I have tried... After plugging the card in it did make a few strange noises while the card installed itself with the latest drivers. But then BAM! worked like a charm. I hope this helps anyone looking to use this specific set up, because for me it was really a shot in the dark.

I purchased this card to connect my Dell Windows 7 64-bit desktop PC to my Sound Devices 702 recorder, for downloading of audio takes from the recorder to the PC.As soon as the package arrived, I popped the card into the PC. The extra power connection on the card was neither necessary nor desirable for use with the SD 702. Upon restart, Windows immediately auto-installed the required driver for the TI chip-based interface. However, I had rushed things by connecting the SD 702 during this initial bootup, and the corresponding disk drive device was not installed properly (as seen from Windows Device Manager). I manually uninstalled that device, then, following a clean bootup, reconnected the SD 702. This time, the disk drive device was installed cleanly and worked fine.I did find that it's necessary to disconnect the Firewire cable from the SD 702 following Windows "eject" of the device. When I left the cable plugged in and tried to turn off the recorder, it hung up with a "closing media" display.

Well, I was skeptical about this because I was not sure if it would fix my problem. I have a pretty beastly computer and I bought a m-audio profire 610 for recording some songs. After receiving it and trying it out it had all sorts of pops and crackles and lag on it. M-audios site recommends a flurry of solutions and trying them all with none of them working i was forced into having buy a dedicated firewire card. (last hope) The thing is, they strongly suggest having the Texas Instruments chipset and unfortunately they are more expensive than other sets. I was upset that I had to dish out another $50 when I just bought the 610 for $400. I was ready to blow up if this didnt work.... BUT! Thankfully, easy install, booted up Windows 7 and it recognized it and installed everything necessary and viola!! Perfect clean sound!!! In just a few minutes i was up and recording and having fun :DRead this article on the importance of a dedicated firewire card if you have not yet...[...]Giving 4 stars only because of price. Definitely a quality product though.

I bought this board to connect to a Phase One Digital back. The FireWire board I had previously was giving errors. I knew the camera back worked as I had tested it on other computes. When I installed this board, which took less than 5 minutes, it was recognized immediately by Windows 7. I connected my camera back and all was good with the world. No problems, no difficulty. Also, the package comes with a power adapter. I wasn't able to use this as it was a legacy item for older PCs. Modern power cables are smaller. It didn't need it, so no problem. I have a HP Z230 if that is relevant to the reader.

Used to have the PCI version of this card on my old system. When I upgraded to the X470 platform, much to my dismay, I discovered that the motherboard doesn't have a PCI slot anymore. I do audio production for a living and I run the older Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 and Liquid Saffire 56 Firewire audio interfaces, and I want to keep using them. Bought this and installation took literally 60 seconds, and now everything is working correctly.This is one of the very few Firewire cards that still uses the Texas Instrument chipset, and if you use firewire audio interfaces, you'll know TI chipsets usually work well with those devices. VIA chips may work, but most of us who rely on Firewire don't want to gamble and waste precious time, just go with a TI chipset.

I had issues that were ultimately unresolvable with this card - yes, the Mackie 1640i drivers are not officially supported on Win10, but I had the hardware working with two other Windows 10 machines, so I was pretty certain that Mackie was not at fault over this. Clean installations of Enterprise, Home, and Pro versions of windows 10 64-bit with full updates did not resolve the issue, nor did changing cables, swapping the PCI-e slot on my Z170 Deluxe, or anything else. The OS could detect the card and the mixer + all its available channels, but cannot actually get/send sound to/from the mixer.The culprit proved to be this card after I swapped to the more expensive StarTech PEX1394B3 card, which Avid has explicitly certified in their technical documentation as being compatible with Pro Tools 11.2+ software/hardware and therefore seemed like the most promising alternative with a 1394a port. This card was certified with Pro Tools 10, which has not been compatible with Windows since Windows 8. The StarTech card is not the much-touted TI chipset but operates perfectly fine, whereas this one does not. I do not have any other firewire devices to test with so I can't confirm whether this incompatibility issue is a one-off with just my card, just this type of mixer/interface, with Windows 10, or a larger problem with the chipset.