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Use a PCI FireWire card for selective device startup
Authored by: barryjaylevine on Aug 06, '03 06:19:47PM

There is another very good reason to use a FireWire PCI card: If a bad cable or port in the FW device causes power to be transmitted on the wrong pin, the FW chip is toast. If that's the FW chip on your motherboard, you're screwed.

This happened to me but, luckily, my PowerMac was still under warranty and the motherboard was replaced at no charge. I've since added a $15 FW PCI card and only use my motherboard's FW ports for connecting my camcorder (which carries no power on its cable). If a bad cable or device fries my FW PCI card, I'll simply toss it and get another one for cheap $$.



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