Green screen in both viewer and canvas

Came in this morning, tried to log and capture some material from my dsr-11. Got i/o error. Quit, restarted and the viewer and canvas screens were green. Quit and tried starting FCP without a project open. Same thing. Tried restoring old preferences. same thing. Tried restarting from cloned drive, same problem which seems to indicate a hardware problem, ran hardware tests in techtool pro without any success. Any ideas?

Update. I bought a new firewire 800 card (a LaCie, the same as the old one) but haven't installed it yet. I figured, let's see what happens if you reconnect a drive to the old firewire 800 card. Same thing; both the viewer and canvas screens are green. I quit, disconnect the drive from the firewire 800 card, restore preferences using fcprescue, same thing. I do a restart, same thing. Then I do what I did yesterday, shut down, disconnected the g5 from power for 5 minutes, reconnected, restarted, everything's working again.
So a good reminder: if things are working properly and you've tried a bunch of remedial steps, Shut down and disconnect power from your computer for a couple of minutes. Never made much sense to me, but it sometimes will help.
I'll replace the firewire 800 card in a while and post back what happens.

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