My Firewire port has suddenly stopped working. Please help!

I have a G4 Mac Mini, with 512 MB of ram. I was happily computing along when I went to go on my external hard drive and I noticed it wasn't there!!! At first I thought it was the hard drive, but it wasn't because my old iPod mini wouldn't work either. I tried the Apple Hardware Test, but it didn't even think I had a firewire port, which made me think I needed to reinstall Tiger, as it might reinstall the drivers? But it didn't. Apples website doesn't seem to have any drivers available for download either. What should I do? I need my photos, which are on the drive for school!!!
Thanks for your help
Max

Hi mash4t-
Greetings and welcome to the Apple boards.
You may find this document helpful: What to do if your computer won't recognize a FireWire or USB device
Luck-
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