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64 bit IMAQdx?

Do you have two cameras on the same firewire board, or do you have two firewire boards?  Each firewire board only gives you one firewire bus which is shared between all the ports on the board.

Try running a single camera at full speed with the other one unplugged and see if that works.  If each camera can run full speed by itself, you are sharing a firewire bus and have to split the bandwidth between the cameras.

Bruce

Bruce Ammons
Ammons Engineering
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Actually they have their own physical interface.  One is using the FW interface on the MB, the other is a plug in PCI-e card.  We  did run into this issue a long time ago when we first built the stations, when trying to run both cameras off of a single interface, but at that time I was able to cut the bandwidth in half and get them to work temporarily.  We bought a seperate interface and cranked them both back up to 400mbps and haven't had a problem since (that was about 1.5 years ago).  This problem seems much different, as I am unable to get either camera to snap even when lowering to the minimum selectable value of 100mbps in NI  max.  I can however finally get it to snap when lowering the resolution from the default format 7 resolution of 1632x1234 to 800x600 and lower. 

Strange the registry tweak didn't work because the key described in the resolution did not exist, and I had to create.  I thought that was going to fix it.  I did make sure the controller numbers and interface numbers matched up when making the tweak.  Seems like the problem in the MS knowledgebase is very close to what I am seeing, just the resoluiton doesn't seem to work in Vista 64.
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