G5 crashes when External Hard drive is mounted

Hi, I hope somebody can help me. I have a 500G lacie portable external HD that I use to back up my files regularly. It worked until today, I plug it in, I was able to save some files, and then the computer shut down. I restarted it and it did the same thing. Black screen. nothing. I have another External HD with its own power supply connected to the same computer and that one works. I tried plugging the Portable HD to the back of the one with Power supply and it shut down as well. Then I plugged it in the back of my 19" LCD, same thing. So I though that the portable HD was bad, I went and bought another drive, a verbatim, and same thing happen. I then plugged my lacie drive to another computer, a G4, and it works which leads me to think that the problem is in the G5, any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I would stay away from LaCie. And their units can damage FW ports, or require what they call "resetting FW ports." To me it sounds like LaCie is shorting out.
Power adapters are also an issue.
Unplug Mac and all cables and power off for a few minutes is support to reset the ports, though in 6 yrs of using OWC Mercury cases I've never once run into trouble.
And consider adding native SATA - case, controller - though not as portable.

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