[G4] Dead FW ports

[Brian Conner]

AFAIK, the FW bus is integrated on the logic board. Two ports, one bus. If
it's blown, I think the only option is a new logic board.

Someone suggested a PCI FW card. Should work fine, as long as you're not
capturing to or from a FW drive on the same card as your deck. Even then,
most of the time, it will handle the bandwidth, depending on your G4. You
probably have a second drive for media files in those G4s, right?

YMMV.


Brian Conner


-----Original Message-----
From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On
Behalf Of Diannah Morgan
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 10:26 AM
To: Power Macintosh G4 List
Subject: [G4] Dead FW ports


Hi,

I've got some old G4-400's in a classroom and I believe I have dead FW ports
in some of the machines.  Apple profiler can't find the devices.(Usually it
says
"built-in")

I'm pretty handy inside a machine.  Is there a website that explains
swapping them out for new components?  And where's a good place to get
newones? (is it as simple as swapping out a modem for a stealth serial
port?)

Or am I stuck getting new mother boards.