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Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / December 2005Power Mac G3 Beige Tower
Running on OS 9.2.2, 266 Mhz, 192 MB Ram, 2 Hard Drives for a total of 9 gigs. This machine runs great and was very expensive when new, about $4,000. I have a combo drive, but can¹t find, anywhere, a download for a DVD player for it, it does have driver version 1.4.5. Can anyone help? > Running on OS 9.2.2, 266 Mhz, 192 MB Ram, 2 Hard Drives for a total of 9 > gigs. This machine runs great and was very expensive when new, about > $4,000. I have a combo drive, but can't find, anywhere, a download for a > DVD player for it, it does have driver version 1.4.5. The DVD Player is part of OS 9.2.2 itself. Are you saying it's not there under your Apple menu?  SignatureMike Rosenberg <http://www.macconsult.com> Macintosh consulting services for NE Florida <http://www.cafepress.com/macconsult,macconsult4> Mac-themed T-shirts <http://bogart-tribute.net> Tribute to Humphrey Bogart On 12/1/05 8:40 AM, in article 1h6vtqc.11wg1ni15fn2bcN%mike@POSTTOGROUP.invalid, "Mike Rosenberg" <mike@POSTTOGROUP.invalid> wrote: >> Running on OS 9.2.2, 266 Mhz, 192 MB Ram, 2 Hard Drives for a total of 9 >> gigs. This machine runs great and was very expensive when new, about [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The DVD Player is part of OS 9.2.2 itself. Are you saying it's not > there under your Apple menu? My apologies for using the wrong address, first time on here, wasn't sure how to reply. If you didn't get my reply, it was: the DVD player is not under the Apple menu, I checked everywhere on the computer, including 'find', but nothing is there. I've checked many sites concerning Mac DVD players and none that I found are compatible with this system and model. Will I have to do a clean install of OS 9.2.2, if I can find an install disc? Thanks for any help! > the DVD player is not under the Apple menu, I checked everywhere on the > computer, including 'find', but nothing is there. I've checked many sites > concerning Mac DVD players and none that I found are compatible with this > system and model. Will I have to do a clean install of OS 9.2.2, if I can > find an install disc? As far as I know, DVD Player is only available as part of an OS 9.x installation, so yes, you'll have to install from a 9.x install disc. However, not only won't you have to do a clean install, you won't even have to do a full install. Just do a custom installation. SignatureMike Rosenberg <http://www.macconsult.com> Macintosh consulting services for NE Florida <http://www.cafepress.com/macconsult,macconsult4> Mac-themed T-shirts <http://bogart-tribute.net> Tribute to Humphrey Bogart On 12/2/05 5:03 PM, in article 1h6ybu2.133yfnwsbo11oN%mike@POSTTOGROUP.invalid, "Mike Rosenberg" <mike@POSTTOGROUP.invalid> wrote: >> the DVD player is not under the Apple menu, I checked everywhere on the >> computer, including 'find', but nothing is there. I've checked many sites [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > However, not only won't you have to do a clean install, you won't even > have to do a full install. Just do a custom installation. Thanks for the help, Mike, I appreciate it! Dave > On 12/2/05 5:03 PM, in article > 1h6ybu2.133yfnwsbo11oN%mike@POSTTOGROUP.invalid, "Mike Rosenberg" [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Thanks for the help, Mike, I appreciate it! > Dave the Apple dvd player wont install cause the beige G3 isnt supported cause of the sucky onboard video that is to weak to decode the mpeg2 on any dvd. but there is a way to get the beige G3 to play dvd's you need to buy a ATI Radion 7000 PCI Mac Edition 32mb vram (dont buy the ati rage 128 with mpeg2 decoder card it wont work in a beige's 33mhz pci bus it requires a 66mhz pci bus brom a B&W Mac and above) and then even tho you have a dvd drive apple dvd player wont install cause it is looking for the decoder card that isnt there. you need to go here http://www.os9forever.com/ and click on dvd player and follow directions. I know cause i own and run a Beige G3 AIO 266mhz G3 224mb ram 120gb hdd with a ATI radion 7000 PCI Mac edition 32mb vram and a pioneer DVR-110D and i can play dvd movie's just fine with the above advice. just buy a ATI radion 7000 PCI Mac Edition 32mb vram (not 64mb vram cause that is a flashed pc version to a Mac version they tend not to work good) and go to the site i linked to and do what it tels you to do and you will be fine. i will warn you it is a bit hard to find the files useing tomb viewer but its all there just need to dig a bit in the apple dvd player 2.7 with tomb viewer file once unstuffed |
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