Firewire & Ethernet problem

Hi all,
I'm fixing a 17" iMac G5 ALS with 512 mg running 10.4.9. The iMac don't recognize the firewire and ethernet ports. There's also a problem with the sleep function, it freeze the iMac and the beachball start forever. The iMac is slow to startup, 10-15 seconds slower than my PowerMac G4 733 mgz.
I reset the SMU with the button on the logic board, didn't make any change.
Does anybody have any suggestion on what to do????
Thanks

Welcome to Discussions -
try shutting down and unplugging and resetting the SMU that way, as detailed in the link, rather than using the internal button. Have you tried starting from the install disk, repairing permissions and repairing the drive? You can also run Hardware Test from the install disk and see what sort of state your drive is in.
Please post back,
Miriam

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