My Dad just bought a Panasonic DV camera and firewire card, and I have been trying to help him get them working.
When I inserted the firewire card the driver installed ok, but I got an error message telling me that “NTKERN.VXD was unable to load the device driver properly [code 2]” in system/device manager. Eventually I found an update on the MS support website, ran it and the problem was solved.
However, although I could now detect the DV camera and see it in System manager, it then had the exact same error “NTKERN.VXD” error.
I know you don’t want to hear the old “try reinstalling the drivers” bit, but that’s what I suggest. Incomplete installs will sometimes cause that error. NTKERN.VXD is a Win 98 file.
No, it’s actually a (shared) Win98 driver file. Win 98SE is pretty old and is sort of mothballed (techsupport wise) at this point. For better firewire support an upgrade to Win ME might be suggested if the hardware has the horsepower for it.
I don’t think it has anything to do with the camera. It’s likely a PCI firewire card issue. If you updated the system from 95 to 98 a full re-install of 98SE from scratch is suggested for full firewire implementation.
Just what kind of camera is this? Make & model & what kind of computer? Model nbr? Having this info makes answering so much easier. If you got USB ports, meritline.com has a neat external USB & FW box for $39.00