[Ti] firewire port appears to be dead

[Bob Fowles]

I had the same problem and posted that story here 7/12/2006. I not 
only fried the FW port on my original 500Mhz PB but when I got a 
replacement, the same thing happened. In both cases I had used the 
same FW cable and a fairly new external HD. I'm pretty sure it was a 
bad cable. I bought a $20 PCMCIA card with two FW ports but it did 
not work with the original but does with the replacement PB. I use it 
every time I make a SuperDuper backup. So there is hope. However, you 
won't be able to use FW Target Disk mode any more.

Bob Fowles, Centre County, PA

At 8:47 AM -0700 11/12/07, Randy Suinn wrote:
>hi all,
>I have a 15" titanium (500mhz?).  One day my firewire port stopped 
>working.  The ext drive spins up but the volume doesn't mount to the 
>desktop.
>I tried another firewire device and another cable to no avail.  FW 
>device never appears in the About this Mac.
>btw, laptop was running off of AC each time becuz my battery is almost dead.
>
>Could the port be fried?
>
>And if so, is there a way I can fix it myself?
>
>TIA!
>randy
>