Thanks AB...I've tried a few different cables now. I started testing it with my Windows laptop last night but I didn't get it setup all the way (slow laptop and too little time).

From looking at discussions on InsanelyMac, it appears that Texas Instruments chips are the best to use on Hackintoshes. That's good and bad I guess since the A8N series boards have TI chips on them.

I've ordered a used SIIG card that is TI based off of eBay to see if that works.

Agrafuese, did you change any kext out after your initial install? I've updated and swapped so many kexts I don't remember what all I've changed. I have yet to play around with the BIOS settings to see if I can wake those ports up.

Anyone else out there with an nForce board using onboard Firewire?

Thanks again for the help guys.

No, nothing that would make a difference - just new Netkas AppleSMBIOS and 9.2.0 kernel w/shutdown fix. But firewire has always worked for me, ever since 10.4.8. If your new SIIG card doesn't work, do consider trying another firewire device...hard drive, ipod...something.

I have an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe with a nForece 570 SLI chipset. Firewire has worked fine right from the start after installing rev.1.

that's just too weird: did it just start working with the 10.5.2 update? 'cause on my M2A-VM firewire was not working before that and I had to disable it in the BIOS. haven't tested it with 10.5.2 though.

Hi jbeckers, not sure if firewire worked before i used eddies patch to upgrade to 10.5.2, i didnt have my drives then..but booting in verbose (-v) as always showed firewire ie speed 400 and so on in 10.5.1. my system is rather weird though. could i ask what you have done for sb600 and 690g, as i get still waiting for root in all new releases...

Firewalk

I don't know really, it just works here. are you installing on a SATA or a PATA drive?

note: you could try to install the latest BIOS (1705, but beware: it breaks the onboard ethernet) to see if it fixes any problems...