On Jan 15, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Herbert Goodfriend <bon...@mailforce.net> wrote:
> I have a Mac Mini G4 1.5GHz running MacOS 10.4.11. > > A few days ago, two problems started: > > 1. The machine would not go to sleep. Neither pressing power button, nor > selecting Sleep in Apple menu, nor using keyboard power button (dialogue box > appears, but selecting Sleep does nothing. The machine can be shut down or > restarted. > > 2. The machine did not recognize its external drive, which is connected via > FireWire. > > Tried booting into single user mode, while booting up shows message: > > FWOHCI Error trying to clear PHY ports. > > then > > FireWire(OHCI) AppleID 31 built-in now active, GUID 001124ff fed33758; max > speeds 100. > > Apple System Profiler shows FireWire Bus, but connected device does not show. > > Ran TechToolPro and the FireWire test could not be run. It was greyed out, > and the information panel that appears when pressing the "i" button says > "FireWire Not Available." > > Any suggestions appreciated. Also is there a connection between the sleep > issue and the FireWire issue? I had a G4 powerbook that had burned out FW chip (as in small melted hole in the circuit board!). It wouldn’t sleep, and had similar entries in the console. What I did to allow it to sleep was to remove the FW driver from the /System/Library/Extensions folder. Firewire didn’t work, but everything else did. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
