Customer Reviews

Syba SD-PCB-COM VIA Chipset USB 2.0 2x Ports and 1394a 2x Ports Cardbus, with USB Power Cable

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The card was very easy to install and to use. I was able to link up my Sony camcorder to the firewire port and transfer my video to DVD without any problems. I would recommend this card to anyone who needs to add a firewire port to their laptop.

Thank you Amazon

Using it with notebook on the windows Xp, the installation is easy and quick. Plug the card in and the driver is installed automatically by the windows Xp. No driver is required to install. The card is working good.

I wish I could report that the Syba USB/FireWire Combo cardbus adapter was a painless and trouble-free way to add extra USB ports to a laptop, but for me it was not. On both an older Compaq running 98SE and a later Dell running XP, the one I bought caused the systems to lock up, sometimes during the boot process, and sometimes during the automatic driver installation. It didn't work in either case. The reason for buying it was to get around the problem of a physically damaged USB jack on the Compaq's motherboard; when it failed to work with the Compaq, I tried the same card in my Dell just to see if it was the card or the computer that was at fault. When the Dell also failed to accept it, I concluded that this one was no good. It may have been a bad sample of an otherwise good product, but I think I'll trade for a different brand when I take it back to the store.