Hi I hope someone can help me here... I recently aquired a Beige G3 with a DVD-ROM drive but have been unable to get it to play a DVD.
There's nothing wrong with the drive, it plays and reads CDs fine and mounts any DVD on the Desktop. I can't seem to sort out the software side of things and I think the problem may be with the installed display card. (see Apple Profile details below) Research on the net indicates that the installed drive (see Apple Profile details below) should should run with Apple DVD Player with no patch required as long as the Apple CD/DVD Driver/extension is 1.2 or later I still haven't been able to get Apple DVD player to open up on the G3, I've tried various Versions and patches with both OS 9.1 & OS 8.6. ... usually end up with some sort of dialogue box saying "hardware is not supported". Maybe the installed ATI Mach64_3DUPro Display Card is not capable of handling DVD???? Do I need to install an alternative display/video card? Monitor is Apple Multi Scan 15"..... Specs via Apple System Profiler... Internal ATA 1 - DVD-ROM Drive Driver version: 1.4.4 Vendor: MATSHITA Revision number: s15C Product ID: DVD-ROM SR-8584A SCSI Bus - IBM Wide SCSI 9GB HD PCI (Slot F1) - Display Card Card Type: display Card name: ATI mach64_3DUPro Card model: ATI GT-C Card ROM#: 113-XXXXX-1.1 Card Revision: 92 Card vendor ID: 1002 VRAM size: 6 MB PCI (slot A1) - SCSI card Card type: scsi Card name: Apple53C875Card Card model: NCR,875 Card ROM#: Not available Card Revision: 4,120 Card vendor ID: 1000 TIA Neil
