powermac won't come out of sleep mode/dvd player help

[padillap]

i have a g3 powermac b&w and the dvd program won't work, also it refuses to come out of sleep mode. is it possible to d/l a different dvd program offline?

[Cheryl]

What OS version are you using? This is needed because it makes a difference in troubleshooting. What DVD program are you using?

Trouble getting out of sleep mode- have you restarted the computer? Have you run a Disk Utility on the drive?

[padillap]

i have restarted and that did nothing. how do you run a disk utilty. Also i am using os 9. When i ever open apple dvd player i get this notice "Apple Dvd player cannot open because the required hardware was not found" (yet i have a dvd drive) "if you have another application open that uses sound or video, wuit that app and open apple dvd player again. if you are using a powerbook that requires a dvd card make sure the PC card is properly installed in the appropriate slot. (21)"

how do i fix this?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Did you recently upgrade the video card and/or do not have the original card that came pre-installed with the machine?

[padillap]

i dont think i have the original one.. i did upgrade the video card cause my old one was shot

[ElDiabloConCaca]

If I remember correctly, the B&W G3 machines had hardware DVD decoding under OS 9, and had a DVD "daughtercard" attached to the video card that was required to view DVD video.

Mac OS X uses software decoding, so the daughtercard isn't needed for DVD playback.

As far as I know, there isn't a workaround you can use under OS 9. I do not know of any alternate DVD players for OS 9.

What kind of video card did you put in the machine?

[padillap]

ATI range 128

[ElDiabloConCaca]

What kind of video card did the machine come with? My suspicion is that the original card had the DVD daughtercard attached, and the new one doesn't. Can you confirm?