A while back I purchased a used Blue & White G3 that has a Pioneer DVR-105 DVD-RW and OS 9.1 installed. My aggravation is that this thing won't run any version of Apple DVD Player so I can't do much of anything. I can't even burn a data DVD with Toast 5. I can burn and read CDs but that's about it. I've run across one article that said that using Apple Profiler I should be able to detect a needed MPEG card of some sort to make this thing work that I don't seem to have. Lost the link to the article and can't seem to find even that again. Can anyone offer advice of what the specs and things are I need to make this thing work?
you may just need to upgrade to tiger.. here's what i found on apple-history.com... you have the minimum specs to run it.. pending you have enough ram Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White) (Bookmark This Page) CPU CPU: PowerPC 750 CPU Speed: 300/350/400/450 MHz FPU: integrated Bus Speed: 100 MHz Data Path: 64 bit ROM: 1 MB ROM + 3 MB toolbox ROM loaded into RAM RAM Type: PC100 DIMM Minimum RAM Speed: 100 MHz Onboard RAM: 0 MB RAM slots: 4 Maximum RAM: 1 GB Level 1 Cache: 32 kB data, 32 kB instruction Level 2 Cache: 1 MB backside, 1:2 Expansion Slots: 3 64-bit 33 MHz PCI, 1 32-bit 66 MHz PCI (filled) Video Video Card/Chipset: ATI RAGE 128 VRAM: 16 MB Max Resolution: all resolutions supported Video Out: VGA Storage Hard Drive: 6-12 GB (up to 3 36 GB available BTO) ATA Bus: Ultra ATA Zip Drive: optional Optical Drive: 32x CD-ROM, DVD/DVD-RAM available Input/Output USB: 2 Firewire: 2 Audio Out: stereo 16 bit mini Audio In: stereo 16 bit mini Speaker: mono Networking Modem: optional 56 kbps Ethernet: 10/100Base-T Miscellaneous Codename: Yosemite Gestalt ID: 406 Power: 200 Watts Dimensions: 17" H x 8.9" W x 18.4" D Weight: 28.7 lbs. Minimum OS: 8.5.1 Maximum OS: 10.4.3 Introduced: January 1999 Terminated: September 1999 Although it shares the name of its predecessor, the "Blue" PowerMac G3 is an altogether different animal. Sporting an all new translucent "easy-open" case design (code named "El-Capitan"), the new G3 was the first Apple model to support FireWire, Apple's new high-speed serial standard. It was also the first professional model to include USB, although it also came with a "legacy" ADB port for backwards compatibility. In a controversial move, Apple chose not to include standard serial ports, a floppy drive, or on-board SCSI (Apple instead chose Ultra ATA). An internal Zip was available, however, as were SCSI expansion cards. The G3 was available in a number of configurations, starting at $1599, and rounding out near $5000 for the fully loaded server configuration. In late April, the "Blue" line was speed-bumped by 50 MHz, bringing the high-end model to 450 MHz. Picture Credits: Apple Computer, Inc.
you may just need to upgrade to tiger.. Well, I have the 450mhz version with 512megs of ram. Problem is that no version of the Apple DVD Player seems to work with 9.1 and there's no explaination of a workaround. I don't want to upgrade to Tiger because I have all sorts of legacy software I'm running on here that I'm still with classic for. Any other ideas? I can't believe that every B&W G3 owner went through this insanity with their DVD player. Apple's support site sucks at being helpful on this issue.
you can also check... http://mac-forums.com/forums/index.php? http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa http://www.ripdifferent.com/phpbb2/index.php i'm sorry.. i'm not sure what do on this one..
Make sure you have the DVD decoder Card if you don't its not going to work in OS 9. Here is a link to purchase one http://www.mac-pro.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.114/it.A/id.684/.f
Using Apple System Profiler as I have seen described online the card is undetectable. I haven't cracked open the case to look for it but Apple System Profiler doesn't indicate I have one and yet I got the Apple DVD Player 2.7 to work using an obscure Non-Apple hack/patch I found at http://web.tiscali.it/ via Mac-forums.com http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=dbb47a459f7f134ac811b5d3399b97a0&t=26867 I still can't get Toast 5 to burn a data DVD so that's the next uphill battle to figure out.
