First: Run Apple System Profiler and see if that sees the port Second: Run the Test CD that came with your PowerBook. This boots into Open Firmware and runs a series of tests. Third: Reset the Power Manager. One your PowerBook that's done by (from Apple's site-)
Resetting the Power Manager 1. If the computer is on, turn it off. 2. Restart the computer by holding down the reset button to the left of the Serial port for 10 to 20 seconds. 3. If the computer does not restart, repeat step 2 three or four times. I assume this computer is out of warranty. If so and if the FW is dead, you may need to purchase a FW PC card and that may work. Are you the original owner of the computer? If so, has this just been occurring or has it happened before? Schoun On 5/20/03 6:02 PM, Dan Crutcher at dcrutcher at loumag.com wrote: > The firewire port on my Powerbook G4 (500 Mhz) has quit recognizing devices > connected to it. > > At first I thought the port might be dead, but I find that when I plug a > portable firewire drive into it I can feel the hard drive spinning up -- so I > know it's getting power -- but the drive never mounts. > > Much the same with an iPod. It charges properly when connected to that > firewire port, but it never mounts and iTunes cannot find it. (I have tried > holding the play-menu/previous-foreward buttons to reset it, but it still > doesn't get recognized. And I have connected the iPod to another computer's > firewire port and that computer does mount it.) > > Can a firewire port partially work? Does it make sense that it could provide > power to the device but not provide whatever it takes to recognize the device? > > Dan > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
