Title: DO NOT BUY (REPEAT TO YOURSELF 10X)
Product review: Needed IEEE 1394a port for analytical instrument. The fact that it also came with three USB ports was nice bonus. When opened and examined, visible evidence of corrosion on chip leads with a white-ish haze on most of the solder joints (residual flux?). With pit in stomach, I installed in XP Pro system. On boot-up it looked promising until one USB port identified as malfunction. System then crashed, no mouse, no keyboard. Tried other free slot, system crashed at BIOS, blue screen. Also, the USB ports are blocked by the metal frame of the PC. You might be able to get a mem stick in but keep a pair of pliers handy to extract it. "QC passed" sticky on the card!That all said, If you need to purchase a FW IEEE 1394a make sure it doesn't say Sabrent on the box.No hassle return, still love Amazon.
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