Dead FW

[Francois Barbary]

Thanks for the responses,
to be honnest i haven't tried booting off a cd and trying to mount. 
that's a good idea. But im not sure it's really my fw only, it's 
probably software related as well, as i said the ipod still charges 
from the FW plug on the cube. Is that normal of a blown FW port?

ill give the system restart.
also does resetting the PRAM do anything in jaguar? I rarely boot in 
os9 anymore.
thanks Francois

On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 06:07  AM, Cube List wrote:
> Message-Id: <a06001213bb9de2664b55@[192.168.0.133]>
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:25:52 -0400
> From: Steve Goldstein <sng at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [CUBE] dead FW?
>
> Francois,
>
> I lost my FW port on a Cube that, eventually, Apple had to take back
> because they could no longer fix it after MANY attempts.  They gave
> me the newest Quicksilver at the time as a replacement, but my wife
> still uses my other Cube (one of the very first made) which never
> gave me any trouble.  Sad fact is that your FW port(s) can die, and I
> think that the entire logic board might have to be replaced to fix
> it.  Problem is that I am not aware of ANY new replacement parts on
> the market, and you would probably get a re-manufactured board.  In
> my experience with my bad Cube, remanufactured parts bring yet new
> sets of problems.  But, you might get lucky.
>
> --Steve
>
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> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:57:12 +0200
> Subject: Re: [CUBE] dead FW?
> From: Riba <riba at hi.hinet.hr>
> Message-Id: <D31971C0-F284-11D7-B0D9-0050E445355F at hi.hinet.hr>
>
> It is possible to repair blown firewire ports although it takes some
> skill and determination. Details here:
> http://www.cubeowner.com/forums//
> index.php?act=ST&f=19&t=1607&s=66f4d75842cc3fae3fc0e47ac03af3ec
>
>
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> Message-ID: <1064870342.c26e4be72f405 at webmail.spamcop.net>
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:19:02 +0100
> From: jallan at freeuk.com
> Subject: Re: [CUBE] dead FW
>
>
> hi
>
> well, is it is dead there is no repair only replace and you can do that
> yourself.
>
> what about booting it from a recent utility like Norton Systemworks CD 
> and then
> seeing if a FW HD mounts.
>
> At least that way you will eliminate software from the equation.
>
> If it does not [ ... and the CD does on some other Mac ] then you need 
> to
> replace.
>
> you have done oall the zapping your PRAM, re-installing your software 
> thing?
>
> John
>
> <quote>
>
> well recently my fw devices have stoped working, and was wondering does
> anyone know of a sure way to know if i need to bring my cube in for
> repairs.