Firewire stopped working

My Firewire external hard drive and DVD burner have recently stopped working. Actually, I'm sure they work fine, but I can't connect them to my computer. I recently moved, and before the move everything was working fine, and after the move my computer wouldn't recognize anything I connected to it via Firewire cable. The external drive is 150GB from Acomdata, which I've had for roughly a year; and the DVD burner is from LaCie, which I've had for two weeks.
The external drive has a USB port in addition to a Firewire one, and it works if I connect it with a USB cable. But the DVD burner only has Firewire ports on it. I know the burner isn't broken, because a light comes on when the power source is plugged in.

One thing to try is to turn off the iBook and remove the power adaptor and the battery and let it sit for 30 minutes or so. Sometimes the ports "reset" if you do this.
Good luck!

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    Address: 00-14-51-c3-6e-06
    Type: Unknown
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    Paired: Yes
    Favorite: No
    Connected: No
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    Address: 00-14-51-c4-73-93
    Type: Unknown
    Services:
    Paired: Yes
    Favorite: No
    Connected: No
    Ken’s mouse #1:
    Name: Ken’s mouse #1
    Address: 00-14-51-c6-44-70
    Type: Mouse
    Firmware Version: 512
    Services: Mighty Mouse
    Paired: Yes
    Favorite: No
    Connected: No
    Manufacturer: Broadcom ($2, $314)
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    Type: Keyboard
    Firmware Version: 272
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    Paired: Yes
    Favorite: No
    Connected: No
    Manufacturer: Broadcom ($1, $7b00)
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    Yes, starting up from the Mac OS X installation is just a test. Don't go past Installer's first screen, although you can go up to the menu bar and run Disk Utility from under Utilities. That will give you more things to do with the mouse than just moving it around the screen.
    Also, while you are in Disk Utility, you should go to the +First Aid+ tab and run +Repair Disk+ on your internal drive.
    Then you can quit Disk Utility and Installer, and restart normally. Just to be thorough, once you are started up again normally, run Disk Utility and use +Repair Disk Permissions+. It probably won't help with this problem, but you never know... I would restart and try the Bluetooth one more time.
    I assume if the BT mouse doesn't show up after the system boots off the OS install disc, this might suggest the iMac's BT hardware is faulty and might need replacement?
    Possibly. I'm assuming an Apple Bluetooth mouse works when booted from the installation disc, since many Macs now only come with Bluetooth mice. But I'm not 100% sure.
    Also, do you also use a Bluetooth keyboard? If that mouse is your only Bluetooth device, it is possible that the iMac is fine, and the mouse is malfunctioning. The batteries are not getting low? Even if they are strong, did you try taking the batteries out for a few minutes and putting them back in?
    And what if I the BT mouse is functional after I boot up with the OS install disc? What might you suggest as the next step
    If you have an external drive that can be erased, you can install a test system on that drive. Set the iMac to boot from that fresh system. See of Bluetooth is working properly. Otherwise, you will need to back up your data, then reinstall a fresh system on your internal drive.

  • Thunderbolt camera stopped working with Skype and Google Hangouts

    Some time ago my built in camera on the thunderbolt stopped working with Skype.  If I activate the camera the green light turns on but the screen either remains black or it shows that spinning loading incon forever.  The green light stays on indicating the camera is active no matter what I do with skype even if I press the button to deactivate the camera.  The green light remains on until you completely kill skype.  Rebooting, reinstalling skype, etc. does nothing.
    Today I disocvered I have the same thing with Google hangouts.  All the way around exactly the same and the green light won't turn off until you kill the web browser.  Same thing with FireFox or Safari.  Also it no longer works on Viber either.
    It's quite infuriating.
    I am not sure if this has anything to do with this awful virus like program called "CamTwist" that I installed once and had a very difficult time removing or not.
    Reinstalling OS X from scratch is not an option.  Too much work, too many programs to reinstall and reconfigure etc.
    How can I get my camera back?
    The camera works just fine with Photobooth and facetime.
    Thanks.

    1. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem. But with the aid of the test results, the solution may take a few minutes, instead of hours or days.
    The test works on OS X 10.7 ("Lion") and later. I don't recommend running it on older versions of OS X. It will do no harm, but it won't do much good either.
    Don't be put off by the complexity of these instructions. The process is much less complicated than the description. You do harder tasks with the computer all the time.
    2. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. Backup is always a must, and when you're having any kind of trouble with the computer, you may be at higher than usual risk of losing data, whether you follow these instructions or not.
    There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
    3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. As I wrote above, it changes nothing. It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. If you prefer, you can act on it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else.
    You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it.
    In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. First, you can read it. Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does.
    You may not be able to understand the script yourself. But variations of it have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message. See, for example, this discussion.
    Nevertheless, if you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.
    4. Here's a summary of what you need to do, if you choose to proceed:
    ☞ Copy a line of text in this window to the Clipboard.
    ☞ Paste into the window of another application.
    ☞ Wait for the test to run. It usually takes a few minutes.
    ☞ Paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page.
    The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. You don't need to copy a second time. Details follow.
    5. Try to test under conditions that reproduce the problem, as far as possible. For example, if the computer is sometimes, but not always, slow, run the test during a slowdown.
    You may have started up in "safe" mode. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.
    6. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. Don't log in as root.
    7. The script is a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, though you may not see all of it in the browser window, and you can then copy it. If you try to select the line by dragging across the part you can see, you won't get all of it.
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