Hi,
I've recently inherited a 500MHz PowerPC G3 (firewire) laptop from a friend. Its running OS X 10.3.9 . The DVD-ROM module is causing me some grief - when plugged in, the system freezes at startup and the system cannot boot until I remove the module. When the system is up and running, plugging the module back in again freezes up the system.
I have had the module working on the laptop, but intermittently. I have plugged the module into another laptop and it does work, so it looks like a software issue, but I wouldn't know where to start. Under OS 8/9 you had extensions, but that's not the case with OS X is it?
My aim is to get a 10.4 installation on this machine, but if I can't use the DVD-ROM module, are there any other suggestions?
Many thanks,
Stacy.
I've recently inherited a 500MHz PowerPC G3 (firewire) laptop from a friend. Its running OS X 10.3.9 . The DVD-ROM module is causing me some grief - when plugged in, the system freezes at startup and the system cannot boot until I remove the module. When the system is up and running, plugging the module back in again freezes up the system.
I have had the module working on the laptop, but intermittently. I have plugged the module into another laptop and it does work, so it looks like a software issue, but I wouldn't know where to start. Under OS 8/9 you had extensions, but that's not the case with OS X is it?
My aim is to get a 10.4 installation on this machine, but if I can't use the DVD-ROM module, are there any other suggestions?
Many thanks,
Stacy.