[drewm]

Long story, looking for help. I have a dual 500 G4 (with factory DVD-RAM) from 3 years ago. Since the very first time I tried to put X on it, I always had problems with it booting up. It would lose video just after the white screen but before the blue. Ultimately I found out through trial and error that I had to remove the ATI extensions from System/Library/Extensions in order to get past this. Anyway, I?ve been going along with these extensions removed for a while. I wanted to add a dvd-r so I bought a Pioneer 105 and put it in. iTunes is fine with it as is the Finder and Toast but iDVD and the DVD Player app don?t like it. iDVD just hangs but the dvd player says it encountered a serious error and that this configuration isn?t supported, or something to that effect. So, thinking that it was the video card I bought a Radeon 9000 mac edition and out it in. same thing.......... Does this sound familiar to anyone? I?ve done all the basic stuff. Zapped pram, did a clean install (archive and install etc).
Thanks
drew

[:XI:]

Firmware updates maybe?

[digi-jj]

1. open your Apple System Profiler
2. Click on the Devices and Volumes tab
3. expand where it says bus > CD-RW/DVD-R
4. What is the "Device Revision" ?

The latest firmware is 1.3, and while some people say 1.2 works with iDVD, anything earlier does not. you will need to install the drive in a PC to update it.

[drewm]

It's 1.21 but I thought that was only an issue with 103's and 104's? Pioneer sent me a Mac updater for 1.30, I guess I'll give it a try.
thanks
drew

[drewm]

1.30 didn't change anything. oh, well.

[jamerican]

Originally posted by drewm:
1.30 didn't change anything. oh, well.

Wher on the Pioneer site is this update available? I have been trying to get it for my 105 (1.0) and so far have not been successful. Is the file small enough that you could e-mail it to me? I would greatly appreciate this.

[:XI:]

I was actually referring to the G4 Firmware. Since you've had problems with X since day one I'd think it would probably be related to this. (you've probably already done this anyway, but it's worth mentioning).
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120068
Might help, might not. :shrug:

Also, didn't somebody make a patch to get iDVD working with third party drives? Who made it?

[tr]

Originally posted by :XI::
Also, didn't somebody make a patch to get iDVD working with third party drives? Who made it?

i remember that, but i think it only worked with iDVD, not iDVD2. plus, it shouldn't be needed, iDVD2 should see any internal IDE superdrive (OEM or retail) just fine.

drewm and jamerican, check out the main xlr8yourmac.com page. there's an article on the latest firmware update for the 105.

you said you did a clean install, but then say archive and install? which one did you do? i ask, because i recently had video problems with my radeon 8500, and an archive and install didn't fix it. i did a clean install of 10.2, then ran the ati october updates, then updated to 10.2.6, and everything is fine again.


tr

[CIA]

The latest firmware for the DVR-105 is actually 1.33, not 1.3,
http://xlr8yourmac.com/archives/jun0...03.html#S15657

Fixed a lot of problems in iDVD for me.