On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:25:34 GMT, cdstudio@northnet.org wrote:

>Recently purchased a bravado 2000 dv and a mirro dv300 and now the
>sparkplus. They all lock up on me when I turn the camera on. I am
>using a xl1 canon.
>
>The system is an AMDK6 2 3d and 248 sdram and 5 gig hard drive.
>
>The only thing I do not have on the card at this time is a scsi drive.
>I am just trying to get it working. There are no irq conflicts, all I
>have on board is a video card and the sparkplus.
>
>I think I got it working but now there is no video monitor button or
>video as I start the camera. It however records fine. it will not play
>back to the camera.

Things to try...
- Use Spark version 2 software (2.01 is less stable for
me...).
- Play with the audio interleave numbers ("4-frames" on
record works best for me...).
- ALWAYS turn the camcorder on first, then open the
Spark software - close the software before turning
off the camcorder.
- Switch from the monitor video image ("video monitor"
button just over the "Spark" logo...) to the camcorder
before playback (you can use a TV hooked up to the
camcorder output to see the transferred video, whether
or not it is recorded...).
- Under "settings", then "playback", disable "scrollbar"
and "frame counter".
- Make sure the Spark card is not sharing an IRQ.
All of these may not be necessary, but I find they are all
useful in keeping my Spark system stable.