Re: Firewire 800 port not working

2017-09-29 Thread Ronda Brown
That’s good Matt! And a new iMac from Daniel will be great I’m sure ;-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPhone 7 Plus > On 29 Sep 2017, at 4:33 pm, Matt Falvey wrote: > > Hi Ronni, firstly yes I meant 1TB & 1.5TB External HD’S. > > Okay I went to the gear icon and devices was checked. I unche

Firewire 800 port not working

2017-09-29 Thread Matt Falvey
Hi Ronni, firstly yes I meant 1TB & 1.5TB External HD’S. Okay I went to the gear icon and devices was checked. I unchecked it and then connected the 1TB External back up HD and it showed up on Path Finder straight away. I tried the same with the 1.5TB and it did not but, this time the light di

Re: Firewire 800 port not working

2017-09-27 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Matt, Still could be a flakey Firewire 800 port, or perhaps could be a software or incorrect setting on the 27-inch iMac Yosemite. Are you using Path Finder 7.6? Check your PF settings to make sure you don’t have this checked. Click on the gear icon in the bottom left of PF sidebar, Standa

Firewire 800 port not working

2017-09-26 Thread Matt Falvey
Hi Ronni, sorry for taking so long Telstra have just finished reconnecting us to the world after 5 days. I tried reseting the SMC and then the PRAM on startup and the problem still occurred. As I had 5 days to think things over I went through my mind as to what had I changed since I started us

Re: Firewire 800 port not working

2017-09-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Matt, I would suggest you have a dead Firewire 800 Port unfortunately. As a last resort you could try - unplug the iMac for 15 seconds, then on Startup zap the PRAM (Command-Option-P-R) for three boots. Then test the Firewire 800 Port. Otherwise it’s a new logic board replacement which unless

Firewire 800 port not working

2017-09-23 Thread Matt Falvey
Hi Ronni, The external HD began to stop working about 12 to 14 months or so ago. It would be intermittent at first, sometimes it would not connect and other times it would, As I was generally using the monthly back up it was not big deal. More recently I had to use the SMC reset to get it to wo

Re: Firewire 800 port not working

2017-09-21 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Matt, When did these external HD stop showing on the Desktop? Do either of these external HD show in Disk Utility on the 27 inch iMac? Have you checked the FW800 port in System Profiler? When connected to the FW800 port do they show in System Profiler: under Hardware - FW800 - status: ? Che

Firewire 800 port not working

2017-09-21 Thread Matt Falvey
Hi, I have an iMac 27 inch Late 2009, 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, running OSX 10.10.5, with one Firewire 800 port which does not work. I have two external HD’s, neither show on the desktop nor light up to indicate that they are operational when I connect them to the iMac. I also have an iMac 20 in