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Psychotic Dreamer said:
Please excuse me for a moment while I whine. I hate being broke. I want a Mac. WAAAH! Ok. I feel better now.

A friend of mine's mother is buying her a $4000 Mac Tower in the next month or so. Granted they also have no problem buying her a new car every 4-5 years.

No real point. Just rambling and it's vaguely mac related. :)
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I posted the following on the dealmac forums too, but I thought someone here might have some advice:

A couple of days ago I was working on my Lime G3/400 iMac when the power went out. When it came on again, everything was fine except that my firewire ports were no longer responding.

I had a LaCie 20gb Ext FW HD on one port and a Lite-On DVD+-R/RW on the other. Apple System Profiler showed nothing on either port. After connecting/reconnecting the cords from each device to all of the ports, I finally got the LaCie HD to connect in one of the ports but not the other. I connected the Lite-On to the LaCie and I was back in business. Problem solved, or so I thought.

I booted the iMac this morning and I'm back to the same problem I had before. Neither device is showing up. And no amount of switching cords and ports is helping.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm sunk without my firewire ports. Is there an inexpensive way to replace them or a software solution to repair them?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mirth
 

Hi Mirth,

Mirth said:
A couple of days ago I was working on my Lime G3/400 iMac when the power went out. When it came on again, everything was fine except that my firewire ports were no longer responding.
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Before the power went out -- I'm going to assume that you haven't had any problems with your Firewire ports before? Which OS version are you using on your iMac? I'm also assuming that it's 8~9.

I had a LaCie 20gb Ext FW HD on one port and a Lite-On DVD+-R/RW on the other. Apple System Profiler showed nothing on either port. After connecting/reconnecting the cords from each device to all of the ports, I finally got the LaCie HD to connect in one of the ports but not the other. I connected the Lite-On to the LaCie and I was back in business. Problem solved, or so I thought.
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I've had problems like this on an iMac before. The Apple software before OS X seemed to be very picky about Firewire.

I booted the iMac this morning and I'm back to the same problem I had before. Neither device is showing up. And no amount of switching cords and ports is helping.
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There are two possible problems, and I'm hoping it's just a corrupted extension due to the unexpected shutdown. Perhaps you can try replacing just your Firewire extensions and see if that helps, and reinstalling any of the original drivers that came with the drives you mentioned. If that fails, I would then move to a full system reinstall just to make sure everything is where it belongs and nothing got corrupted at all. I have always found this overkill but more of a peace-of mind thing.

If that doesn't work, call an Apple repair shop (preferably a specialist, not a computer store) and see if they have had any similar problems with your iMac model, because if the software doesn't fix the problem, it's definately a hardware problem, especially if the drives worked flawlessly before. Because of my own personal experience with this issue, I always suspected a hardware problem but never confirmed it because the machine wasn't my own and it's not used often enough.

Please let us know how you get on,

/johnny :)
 

pezagent said:
Before the power went out -- I'm going to assume that you haven't had any problems with your Firewire ports before? Which OS version are you using on your iMac? I'm also assuming that it's 8~9.
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No probs before the power outage. Using OS 10.2.8 :D

pezagent said:
There are two possible problems, and I'm hoping it's just a corrupted extension due to the unexpected shutdown. Perhaps you can try replacing just your Firewire extensions and see if that helps, and reinstalling any of the original drivers that came with the drives you mentioned. If that fails, I would then move to a full system reinstall just to make sure everything is where it belongs and nothing got corrupted at all. I have always found this overkill but more of a peace-of mind thing.
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Would this still be necessary in OSX? I'm fairly new to it, but I love it so far.

pezagent said:
If that doesn't work, call an Apple repair shop (preferably a specialist, not a computer store) and see if they have had any similar problems with your iMac model, because if the software doesn't fix the problem, it's definately a hardware problem, especially if the drives worked flawlessly before. Because of my own personal experience with this issue, I always suspected a hardware problem but never confirmed it because the machine wasn't my own and it's not used often enough.
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From what I understand, faulty FW ports are a problem with this particular iMac :( Someone else suggested hitting the PMU button, so I'll start a full diagnostic tomorrow. I'm still afraid they're shot though.

Given that the iMac has been a champ since 1999, I'm not gonna complain too much if the FW ports have gone out now. Only problem is I'm currently unemployed and my budget is pretty tight, so I was hoping for a quick and cheap fix. I should find out about a new job possibility this week, so if that works out I might look into getting a refurb iBook and let my son have this machine (he'll be 2 this month so it'll be good timing).

Please keep the suggestions coming and thanks pezagent,

Jay
 

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So, umm. I just wanted to say that I've had my Mac for about 4 months now and I love it to pieces. I do not miss my PC at all.

:)

-Ryan
 

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