It appears that my firewire card died. The computer can't find the "microsoft dv camera and vcr" external capture device anymore. The capture device is a pyro a/v converter from ADS technologies. The firewire card is also from ADS.

What is the best firewire card to get and/or is there a really good one under $50? Especially one that doesn't drop a lot of frames with analog captures. I was reccomended the Belkin PCI to 1394a card model FSU502. It's $38 on newegg, is that a good product/price?