IMac firewire problems - anyone just replace them?

hi. i know there have been a lot of problems and a lot of posts with the FireWire busses on the aluminum iMacs. I know no Apple solution has been released. But i'm wondering if anybody has had their FW busses on their iMac replaced with a bus using a different chipset than the Agrere(sp?) set. is this possible even? if this ridiculously complicated?

Since the Firewire is soldered onto the logicboard, you'd need an entirely different logicboard design. Unless Apple has used other chipsets, which is unknown, I don't think that's possible. It is more likely one of the issues outlined here needs to be addressed if you are having Firewire problems*:
http://www.macmaps.com/firewirebug2.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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