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Hi all, first of all: I’m german, so my english is not that good… be patient. I got an 15" MBP (LED; 2.4 Core2Duo) Think i “burned” my firewire Ports by plugging in a Firewire800 Card reader the wrong way. The cable was plugged in the reader “overhead”! What I’ve tried right now (in this order):
- PRAM reset (5 chimes)
- tok the battery out for one night and then pushed the Power button for 10 to 20 sec.
- hardware test standard
- hardware test detailed
- fomatting disk and new install of OSX 10.6.3
- restoring everything from time machine
- once more PRAM reset NOTHING Helped
- Profiler says it cant find any Firewire.
- same symptoms on each user
- Macbook needs about 10 min to start up. This is what confuses me the most. When it starts the grey screen with the aplle-logo and the rotating whell stays for about 2 Min. Then comes an light blue screnn for about 7 or 8 Min and then i see the logiin. When i type something while the light blue screen ist on, this will be recognized and ther are some dots in the loginwindow afterwards. Also there was sound of the welcome-thingy after the first restart after installing the new system with the light blue screen . Sound only, no display-output vor the first 10 min. Any Ideas? Logicboard I think. Incl. grafic? thx a lot, seb
Oh, it’s the logic board. The firewire port is integrated into it. I just know of no way to fix it without a component level repair. remac may know of someone in Germany, I’d contact him.
Derseb, I was having the exact same symptoms on my Macbook Pro 2.4 as you- I found this post- and removed the IOFireWireFamily.kext out of /System/Extensions- and the computer booted up normally- and now sleeps. However the firewire doesn’t work anymore. here’s the original post. thanks, gpr http://dae.cyberic.eu/blog/slow-startup-…
@G Paul Reader: THANKS A LOT! This solved the freezing and slow startup. I just bought a new 13" and got most of the money back from my insurance… But so i can use the old 15" for Backup again… Thxthxthx, derseb
