[zacharie]

Hello,

I was given a nice old 667 tibook; the computer runs great, except from a dead firewire plug. More exactly, the firewire bus is detected, but when I plug in any firewire device, the firewire bus is missing, as if it never existed. I don't know what to do with it. Would you please have any ideas?
Do you think that if I buy a pcmcia card with firewire, I could use this high speed bus option or it is not feasible?
The titanium is loosing its color all around the edges; I put some tape around the corners to make it look good.

[Voch]

Have you tried reinstalling the OS? Sounds a little drastic but the best case is that it's a software problem.

Voch

[amazing]

Originally posted by zacharie:
Hello,

I was given a nice old 667 tibook; the computer runs great, except from a dead firewire plug. More exactly, the firewire bus is detected, but when I plug in any firewire device, the firewire bus is missing, as if it never existed. I don't know what to do with it. Would you please have any ideas?
Do you think that if I buy a pcmcia card with firewire, I could use this high speed bus option or it is not feasible?
The titanium is loosing its color all around the edges; I put some tape around the corners to make it look good.

there are different firewire pc-cards out there, both fw400 and fw800.

The Ti-667 is very nice as a freebie (regardless of how it looks), just put some $ into the fw-400 card, and maybe even a wireless pc-card. I was absolutely disgusted with the wireless range from the internal card in my Ti-400, and was absolutely delighted with the wireless range of a $30 Buffalo airstation card (the Mac-specific model) which is supported natively in Panther.

[Crusoe]

I concur with reinstalling the OS. I bought a Ti500 2 years ago for $275. CD nor firewire worked, bought Jaguar, installed and all is well. Using it atm as a backup while my 17" is in for warranty service.

If you don't want to reinstall, the only other things I can think of is see if the previous owner set up a firewire network connection, or if you have another Mac available see if you can go either way with target disk mode.

Definetely and nice gimme system.

[zacharie]

Thank you guys for your interest in helping me.
I've re-installed OS X several times but nothing came from it. I've also booted into OS 9 to see if it would work but no results in OS 9 either...
So maybe the port is out of order?
Or do you think a clean install of os x with a pre-erase and formatted disk would do something more appropriate?

In the last case, maybe I should get a pcmcia card.
What should I do finally? erase disk and clean install or pcmcia card?

Thank you for letting me know, as I'm completely lost in this matter.

[pat++]

did you try to reset the PRAM and the Power management unit?

(press command-option-P-R during startup until you hear the startup sound again to reset the PRAM)

To try to reset the Power Management unit, see apple documentation here.

[zacharie]

I've tride resetting the PRAM and the PMU bu nothing positive.
I guess I would better buy a pcmcia card with the firewire fitted on it.
Thank you for your help guys!