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Classa30 · Dec 19, 2005, 07:50 PM

I have B&W G3 upgraded to Sonnet G4 800, has been running fine for over a year. After I installed the latest security update the other day, my firewire bus doesn't recognize anything. It charges my ipod and powers my CDRW drive, but does not recognize them as drives. When I pull up the system profiler, Firewire bus shows no devices. Anybody seen this, ideas? Do I just need to buy a PCI card with firewire on it?

dave49er · Dec 20, 2005, 07:44 PM

Download the Combo Update, repair permissions, restart, apply Combo Update, restart, repair permissions.

Classa30 · Dec 20, 2005, 11:06 PM

Please bear with me, I'm not that savy with some of this stuff. I downloaded the Combo Update, and installed it. It recognized my ipod but not my CDRW drive, I restarted, now it doesn't recognize either again. How do I repair permissions?

Originally Posted by dave49er

Download the Combo Update, repair permissions, restart, apply Combo Update, restart, repair permissions.

Classa30 · Dec 21, 2005, 11:36 AM

Found the disk utility functions, it all appears to be working good now, thanks for the help.

dave49er · Dec 21, 2005, 06:06 PM

You're welcome. I'm glad that everything is now OK with your machine.

Classa30 · Dec 23, 2005, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by dave49er

You're welcome. I'm glad that everything is now OK with your machine.

It died again. It was working, but after the next restart it lost it again. Somebody recommended that I run Cocktail, so I did, still no good. Do I need to do a clean install? I'm not UNIX savy enough to get into the logs and find out what's going on. I appreciate any other ideas you guys might have.