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<blockquote data-quote="RobDreugan" data-source="post: 12725">Assuming you have extra firewire ports, have you tried using different ones on the system that crashes?If you wanna diagnose something lets go over the 4 or 5 easiest possibilities.1.&nbsp; Bad drive:&nbsp; ( works on other system, that's out )2.&nbsp; Bad Cable:&nbsp; ( works on other system )3.&nbsp; Bad Firewire Port on crashing system: ( Dunno )solution:&nbsp; Use another known working firewire device on the crashing system's firewire port to test if its working properly4.&nbsp; Corrupt OS:&nbsp; ( dunno )solution:&nbsp; If another firewire device is working on the same port, on the crashing system, maybe there's a corrupt file or something, and doing a first aid repair might help.5.&nbsp; Can't figure it outsolution:&nbsp; Throw everything out of the windowI did IT work on pc's for a very long time, this is kinda the way you trouble shoot a PC, but in theory this still applies to macs.&nbsp; There's probably a few other things I don't know that you can do on Mac, but hopefully this is a start.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobDreugan, post: 12725"] Assuming you have extra firewire ports, have you tried using different ones on the system that crashes? If you wanna diagnose something lets go over the 4 or 5 easiest possibilities. 1. Bad drive: ( works on other system, that's out ) 2. Bad Cable: ( works on other system ) 3. Bad Firewire Port on crashing system: ( Dunno ) solution: Use another known working firewire device on the crashing system's firewire port to test if its working properly 4. Corrupt OS: ( dunno ) solution: If another firewire device is working on the same port, on the crashing system, maybe there's a corrupt file or something, and doing a first aid repair might help. 5. Can't figure it out solution: Throw everything out of the window I did IT work on pc's for a very long time, this is kinda the way you trouble shoot a PC, but in theory this still applies to macs. There's probably a few other things I don't know that you can do on Mac, but hopefully this is a start. [/QUOTE]

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