can't boot - causes; Presonus, SB Audigy Firewire maybe.

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I have 10.5.6 installed using iPC live disk. Things are working fine... I have a gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L, and i'm using the modbin 10.4 kernel... after moderate use to make sure things were working I installed Logic and started up my Presonus Firewire Interface through an SB Audigy Firewire port... everything seemed to work fine. Presonus showed up no problem. Logic wouldn't record...kept giving me an error about permission, so I set permission to read/write for everything (entire disk), then it recorded perfectly. After a while, I restarted my computer and from that point on it wouldn't load no matter what I tried. no safe mode, nothing. Single-user mode showed an error, ERROR: FireWire unable to determine security-mode: defaulting to full-secure, then my system would just restart.

 

Does the Presonus need to be turned off in a special way? I just hit the power in the back...does it need to unmount like disks do? Is it a problem with the SB Audigy's firewire port? My Audigy doesn't show up in "Sounds" but I don't really want to use it for anything other than the firewire port.

 

Thanks for any help or suggestions...been spending a week on this, no results.

 

 

P.s. system specs if anyone needs em:

cpu: Intel Q6660 OC'd to 3ghz

mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L

mem: 8GB 800mhz

Vid: GeForce 9600GT (QE working without a prob - darwin)

Aud: built in

Firewire: using a SoundBlaster Audigy for it's FW port

HDD: 4 - All SATA main MacOSX drive is a seagate 1TB