Is my firewire dead?

[zathras]

Computer: iMac G5 iSight running 10.4.5

Tonight I wanted to grab a home video in iMovie and make a DVD of it. I hooked up my moviebox DV and iMovie kept on saying "No Camera Attached." So I try my DV camcorder - and same thing.

I tried both of them in my iBook and they both were recognized right away.

I then tried booting in Target disc mode both ways from iMac to iBook and vice versa. Nothing.

I noticed that in System Profile on the iBook it shows the info for the connected device and on the iMac nothing is shown on the firewire screen - it just has:

FireWire Bus:

Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec


Any ideas or will I be sending my Mac back for service

 

[2nyRiggz]

Try another Firewire device and see if the imac sees it.


Bless

 

[zathras]

I tried every devide I had.

I tried resetting nvram

and I even tried turning the iMac off for an hour or so.

BUT

What I didn't do was unplug the Mac when I shut it down.


I just shutdown and unplugged it for about 5 minutes - plugged it in and bam - its back.

sorry for the extraneous posts but maybe it will help someone