If someone wants to test out his “bad” FireWire cable on a $1000 video deck and $3000 computer at your workplace (even though he swore that the cable had no ill effect on his own equipment), it is probably not a good idea to let him.
If you don’t get a video signal on the first computer, it is also probably not a good idea to test the cable again on a similar deck and computer right next to the first.
Very bad things can happen.
Now we are looking at two decks with fried DV ports and probably two $800 logic board replacements on the Power Mac G5 towers.
Some days it is just better to stay in bed.
Update: It looks like we will only need to replace the logic board on one of the Power Macs. Still, though….
