Firewire trouble

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  1. Xavier, May 7, 2006

    Xavier macrumors 68030

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    Today I noticed that my firewire connetion, on both ports, wasn't working anymore. I noticed a problem when I woudl connect my iPod because iTunes would hang on import about halfway through. I also had an iSight set up, and went to use it and didn't get any signal. Now both ports don't anymore, but still send a power signal to the iPod and iSight. I have no clue what happened.

    So now I am stuck with no iPod and no iSight. ( well I do have the USB iPod connector and that works fine). Does anyone have any idea what has happened? I have a G4 MDD Dual 1ghz, and have never had a problem with it until now.
     
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  2. Gokhan, May 7, 2006

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    unplug all firewire devices and turn off the mac for 24 hours then zap pram reset cuda and fix permissions and just for good measure run fsck the replug everything back in and see how it goes !!
     
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  3. Xavier, May 10, 2006

    Xavier thread starter macrumors 68030

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    It worked!

    Thank you a lot Gokhan!
     
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  4. Gokhan, May 11, 2006

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    glad it worked !
     
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  5. motulist, May 11, 2006

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    Turn off the computer for 24 hours? Why is that necessary?
     
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  6. Gokhan, May 13, 2006

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    resets the ports when all items are unplugged i belive but i could be wrong
     
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