USB works just fine, and I hooked up the USB ports in front of my case and they work also. I'm sure I hooked up the FireWire correctly from the front ports on my case. I also hooked up the card that came with the motherboard. Windows detects the firewire (well, it has drivers installed for it, won't detect my camcorder though). I read that installed SP1 fixes this problem but it didn't do anything for me. Some people over at amdmb forum's have theirs working but there have been a couple cases with the situation that I'm in.