On 9/02/2006 6:18 AM, "Robert Howells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 9 Feb 2006, at 1:16 AM, Christian Kotz wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> just wondering if anyone has any clues on why only one of the two >> firewire ports on my Cube choose to function. The port closest to the >> USB and Monitor connectors is the one that appears to have trouble >> transferring data. When my iPod is connected to it, the iPod only >> charges rather than docks and camcorder isn't recognised either when >> connected to it. The second port works fine connecting iPod and >> docking it into iTunes and camcorder is recognised in iMovie etc. I >> thought it may have been dirty connectors inside the port so I've >> cleaned it and checked it all out but still no life. I'd prefer to >> have 2 ports so I could leave both firewire devices constantly >> connected as it is a real hastle to connect and disconnect any cables >> on the cube but I need to swap the firewire leads regularly with only >> one port. >> >> Regards Christian > > You could try the following " Fix " ..... courtesy of Macintouch > > Bob > > > > Joshua Weiland said : > > In response to David Garozzo having problems with the FireWire ports > going dead on his father's iBook, I've had the same thing happen twice > on my iMac (original flat panel, 800 MHz, SuperDrive). I've had it > happen under Panther & Tiger. > The fix both times has been to disconnect the FireWire devices, > log in to Open Firmware, > and at the prompt type "reset-nvram", then reboot. > After booting up, I've reconnected my FireWire devices > to have them work perfectly. > (I believe I originally found this fix on Apple's support pages > probably 2 years ago.) > Hi Christian The other thing you can also try as well, which sometimes work is to remove the little PRAM battery inside the cube. You'd need to take the cube apart to do this, but I don't think you should have any problems with that. So disconnect everything, take the power out, remove the battery and leave it for 10-15minutes or longer. Then pop it back in and see if that works. I've had Firewire stop on a computer once and after doing that it all worked fine again. (Otherwise if it's something fried on the motherboard it may be cheaper to look at a Firewire hub. But we'll be optimistic first! ;o) Fingers crossed. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <danielATmacwizardryDOTcomDOTau> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh**
