Is my Firewire 800 PCI card fried?

A couple of days ago my G4 with Sonnet dual 1.8 Ghz processors woke up. There was an immediate warning on my screen in five languages that something bad had happened. I rebooted and all was OK, except my G-RAID 320 gig wouldn't mount. I had it connected via Firewire 800. There was nothing I could do to get it on my desktop, including swapping cables. It shows up fine if I connect via Firewire 400.
I just tried it again after installing Leopard, and it still won't mount via FW 800. My thoughts are that my LaCie FW 800 PCI card is blown and I'll need to replace it. Any other ideas?

Hi! Try resetting the pmu. Press the button once with all external cables unhooked. Tom
Here's an example of the button location.
QS/DA
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FW800
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Sawtooth
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MDD
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