Making it finally work
The D1 steadfastly refused to talk to my PC

After 5 weeks of fooling around with the laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500) I decided to give in and follow the prescribed Nikon route

The pain was dreadful, instal/fail instal/fail etc etc

Finally we came up with this formula using WIN98 (NOT SE)

Remove any trial Nikon View or Capture from the PC

Buy your adaptec 8920 card

Fit per manual in the PC

Install the driver by starting the PC and when it asks where the driver is use `Have Disk'

Reboot the PC to ensure it is now able to see the card in MyComputer properties device manager

Use the floppy supplied with the 8920 to install HotClick using the setup.exe program

Reboot the PC

Download the V2.0 or later driver from www.adaptec.com the file is called `hot_connect_8920_v20.exe'

Unpack this self extracting file in a blank directory

Using device manager select update driver and use the unpacked version of `WN1394.vxd' now found in the blank directory above

The driver I used was dated 17/12/98 timed at 14.49 and is 79kb

Reboot the PC

Check the 1394 interface by running HotClick from the program menu

You should see the DV camera image which has a swing-out window

Install Nikon View or Capture

Reboot the PC

Connect the D1, set to PC and watch that red light go green!

NB One of the reasons this problem took so long is that I first tried to install the adaptec 8920 in a machine with an LS30 Coolscan and they WON'T work together

If you find any other approach works more simply please let me know!