NP Glad to be of help.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Cornett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kyle, et All Listas > > Hi! and many Thanx for the kind link which led to the downloads, which > have now been gratefully grabbed. (-note for claritysake; as the eMac's > AHT CD was on-hand, it's wasn't one of those which were needed. :) > > But, I'm yet hopeful for some help on reviving these FW ports saga.. > > On 12 21, 2008, at 06:05 PM, imaclist group wrote: >> I've got an ol' eMac 700Mhz without it's >> Firewire ports alive, and have tried various RAM re-configs and >> zapping of PRAM, along with Open Firmware re-sets to no avail >> nor any luck in reviving them, also AHT finds no problems. >> (note: otherwise; this eMac is running OSX 10.4.11 nicely.) >> >> Has anyone here any other tricks up their sleeves for me to tryout >> for a hopeful fix?? Any & All sage advice will be welcomed as well >> as very much appreciated. TIA > snip >> >> Date: Sat, Dec 20 2008 6:47 pm >> From: "Kyle Parish" >> >> You can google apple hardware test pages or look at the one below. >> http://macosx.com/forums/howto-faqs/299888-use-apple-hardware-test- >> other-diagnostics-test-hardware.html > > I'll add in a few (duh factor'd) forgotten details; the eMac does go > into FWTD mode (shown onscreen) easily, but won't mount nor be seeable > by DU on the Mac it's connected to, and also; no FWTD Mac connected to > the eMac is choosable to boot from by the eMac using Option-key held @ > boot, either, and System Profiler's Firewire catagory just shows nada, > too. > > Are both of these FW ports really dead?? Is there no-help/way/trick of > instigating a kickstart or reset for them??, as the eMacs surely won't > bootoff of a USB Drive as the older fruity iMacs would&could. > > Any/All suggestions/advise will be mucho welcomed & very appreciated. > > Respectful of GURUs > Bill Cornett > / > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
