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fulmer
2004-10-01, 04:16
I just purchased a used 450MHz G3 B&W Tower. It's got the REV 2 motherboard (obviously) and the FW daughter card installed.

In the System Profiler, Firewire doesn't show anything, but it's physically present (attached to the motherboard).

I'm running OS X.3.5 with all the security patches. Completely up-to-date...

Any ideas? http://forums.appleinsider.com/images/smilies/1confused.gif

chung123
2004-10-14, 14:04
I just purchased a used 450MHz G3 B&W Tower. It's got the REV 2 motherboard (obviously) and the FW daughter card installed.

In the System Profiler, Firewire doesn't show anything, but it's physically present (attached to the motherboard).

I'm running OS X.3.5 with all the security patches. Completely up-to-date...

Any ideas? http://forums.appleinsider.com/images/smilies/1confused.gif
I, too, got a rev2. B&W G3 with a "flaky" firewire port.

I just took a phillips screw driver, unseated the thing, cleaned the connection and reseated it and thing shows up fine in the apple hardware profiler.

The other option is to add a firewire card...