firewire is kaput
The other day the power went out while I was away. I came arived home and restarted my computer and now my firewire ports are not working. I have an ipod and a firewire harddrive. Both work on my laptop but will not work on my Powermac, however when I plug my ipod in it still charges it just wont mount the drive. My powermac is a dual 867 g4 and I am running system 10.2.6. What can I do to fix this problem or are my ports out of commision forever?
With all due respect...
With all due respect...
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When someone accidentally switched off the powerstrip for my G4 tower I had what seemed like a dead machine till we tried that.
I would also try to reset the PRAM. Hold down command - option - P - R keys while restarting the computer. Keep them down till you hear it restart three times.
I would also check the HD directory. Lauch Disk Utility and try to repair the drive. While you are at it repair permissions.
If none of that helps you likely have a hardware problem.
Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.
Don't worry, as soon as my work resetting my posts is done I'll disappear forever.
On a side note: If I buy a firewire 800 pci card, will my firewire 400 devices work? I know that 800 is nine pin and 400 is six pin but I am not sure if they are backwards compatible...
With all due respect...
FW400 plugs into FW800 with an adapter cable.