Both my CD/DVD Rom and my External speakers need drivers to work. Help!

My Compaq Presario CQ56 Notebook needs drivers for my CD/DVD rom and my external Philips speakers. Help!

I know it is frustrating but no need to shout. I am going to assume you have MS Vista but that is a guess since you do not tell us anything about the computer.
Auto fix
Go to the page linked above and read carefully. There is an automatic fix and then instructions for editing the registry. This works to correct your problem maybe 60% of the time. It can also be a hardware problem but try this first. Post back if you need more help (lower case, please).

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I have an IMAC and I'm running OSX 10.9.2. I'd like to store my Aperture /IMovie Libraries to an external hard drive. In addition, I'd like to partition the external hard drive so that Time Machine can use it to both back up my IMac and the externa

I have an IMAC and I'm running OSX 10.9.2. I'd like to store my Aperture /IMovie Libraries on an external hard drive. In addition, I'd like to partition the external hard drive so that Time Machine can use it to both back up my IMac and the external library drives. Is this possible? Can I set up a RAID 5 format for redundancy?

I'd like to store my Aperture /IMovie Libraries on an external hard drive.
That is fine and recommended.. use the fastest disk you can afford.. ie Thunderbolt>USB3>FW800>USB2.
In addition, I'd like to partition the external hard drive so that Time Machine can use it to both back up my IMac and the external library drives.
Let me be clear.. you want to partition the one disk.. use it for TM and move your files to the external disk.. and then backup to the same disk.. You can do it.. but that is not a backup.. that is an experiment in how long you can get away with running files and backups on the same disk before you lose everything.. like Russian Roulette.. pull the trigger enough times and laws of probability will do you in.
You must have backups on a different disk .. otherwise it is pointless.
Can I set up a RAID 5 format for redundancy?
No.. you can buy special USB and Thunderbolt external drives that support RAID..
BUT that is still not a backup.. let me show why.. you make a silly move and corrupt your file in aperture.. it is not that rare.
Raid will corrupt all copies of the files.. it is replicated across all disks.
Delete a photo it is deleted across all disks.. you have no recovery.
Alway, always consider RAID system one disk.. backup onto another disk.. and if the photos or movies are at all important to you.. ie your family .. make another copy and store in a relatives house.. There is no such thing as too much redundancy.

Apple DVD Player not recognizing external speakers

I have connected a pair of Logitech V20 notebook speakers to my MacBook Pro. I adjusted the System Preference settings/Sound/Sound Effects - play sound effects through "Logitech USB Speaker" and that works fine. I can hear my laptop's beeps through the external speakers.
But when I put in a movie DVD and the Apple DVD Player boots up, the sound does not come through the external speakers. So, in the DVD Player, I selected Preferences/Disc Setup/Audio/Audio Output and the external speakers are not there - only "System Sound Output" with nothing else available/recognized.
So, how do I get the DVD Player to put the sound out through my external speakers and not the laptop internal speakers?

"System Sound Output" at DVDPlayer's preferences is just fine - it refers to the output that has been selected at System Preferences - Sound
No sound from USB speakers when booting is o.k., too: At this point those drivers that are needed haven't loaded yet.

Are there any good DVD authoring programs for Mac now that Apple has discontinued DVD Studio and iDVD? I need to make DVDs that have interactive menus and such (Final Cut X and Compressor 4's DVD option is a little cheap). Any ideas?

Are there any good DVD authoring programs for Mac now that Apple has discontinued DVD Studio and iDVD? I need to make DVDs that have interactive menus and such (Final Cut X and Compressor 4's DVD option is a little cheap and doesn't provide any kind of professional DVD authoring). Any ideas?

This comes up a lot these days.
Practically speaking, there are really four options for the Mac platform: Toast (<$100), Adobe Premier Productiom ($1,600 to buy or $50/month to rent), find a copy of Final Cut Studio from 3rd party (+/- $1,000 new) or a boxed edition of iLife to get iDVD ($50 - $90 on Amazon new).
The other question everyone has is how many OS versions before iDVD or FCS breaks? No one knows, but Apple has said they're no longer supporting these legacy apps. Of course, no one is mandated to upgrade to a new OS unless they buy a new computer. So if it works on a system, stay with it as long as it makes sense.
Good luck.
Russ

I have a DVD-Rom and DVD-Video card for Powerbook and need advice

I acquired 2 accessory components for a G3 series powerbook. I have a dual G4 so have no use for them. There is a M4743 DVD-Rom for Powerbook and a DVD-Video PC card for G3 series Powerbook family M5163. There is also a software CD. I would like to sell them but I really don’t how to explain what this stuff does. I tried Ebay and did not find any matches. Does this make a DVD upgrade for a particular Powerbook? Is something else required? Is Ebay the best place to sell? Any idea what this stuff is worth? Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Bob

Robert,
You apparently have the DVD Video Player Kit for the Powerbook G3 Series "Wallstreet" M4753.
This is the DVD-ROM module:
http://www.powerbookmedic.com/xcart1/customer/product.php?productid=16219&cat=26 6&page=1
This is the DVD Decoder PC card:
http://www.ifixit.com/cart/customer/product.php?productid=296&cat=&page=1
The above DVD PC card is not Apple's but there were two third-party vendors who also offered a DVD kit...VST and MCE. They all served the same purpose and will all be priced similarly.
Both PC card and optical drive are required to play DVD movies on the Wallstreet, plus Apple DVD Player is only supported when booted to 9.x, not 10.x.
I really cannot give you a fair price to ask; the above hardware prices are probably high but you will get an idea.

Need help with my DVD-ROM and Burner

I’ve got a 875P Neo FIS2R, Sony DRU-510K Burner and a LITE-ON 16X DVD ROM. My LITE-ON drive is set to secondary master and my SONY burner is set to secondary slave but for some reason is the POST report it does not show my DVD drives. In windows XP it also does not show any of my drives. I have a 120 GB Maxtor 6Y120M0 SATA drive which is showing up in the POST report.
Please I need this to fixed up ASAP
If any one has any ideas the please reply
Chatura

Go to BIOS and set your IDE configuration, try this one:
For Native Mode:
ATA Configuration: SATA Only
S-ATA Keep Enabled: Yes
P-ATA Keep Enabled: Yes
PATA Channel Selection: Both

DVD-ROM and Spotlight

I don't think this is a iDVD problem, but thought this forum is still the best place to look for some help.
Just finished an iDVD project. I've got a slideshow built in Photo-to-Movie and iMovieHD, and am using iDVD '08 to encode & burn, along with two other short movies. The kick is that I'm adding about 1000 jpegs or so to the DVD-ROM portion. The finished disk plays fine on my DVD player and PS3, and even a Dell laptop, but when put back into the mac that burned it the playback is horrible...at least for 5-10 minutes or more. And the culprit seem to be SPOTLIGHT indexing all those jpegs. If I wait 'tilt he drive activity stops (but that is quite awhile) it plays fine, even from the start or main menu. Or if I add the disk to the privacy preference in spotlight, it plays fine too.
So, question 1.....is there anything I can do to the DVD-ROM portion that would either stop the spotlight indexing or make it much much faster? I'm making a bunch of these for other people, and though most aren't Mac users, it is annoying that it doesn't "just work."
And question 2......am I crazy or shouldn't Apple be able to tell that If I launch DVD player that indexing should be paused in any case? Seems like a defect in the DVD player app if you ask me.....it should be able to delay indexing.
Question 3....is there something else I'm missing?
Thanks
jb

I'm wondering if is possible to address the timing of when indexing takes place through preferences.
If so, this might be another option. (not sure if this option is only available for actual hard drive/s or alternate volumes as well).
I'm sure you are also aware of apple's FB thru iDvd's Menu in order to make suggestions for improvements to this software as well. (launch iDvd and from the Top Menu scroll down to "Provide iDvd Feedback".
Try the following if you haven't already (uncheck applications in hope that DVD Player will not undergo indexing automatically as soon as a dvd is inserted). Note: I haven't yet tried this myself so I have no idea if it will actually work or not.
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Director projects on DVD ROM and DVD video

Hi all,
I need your attention and your aid to solve a doubt and a
job. I've to create a DVD Video that plays on dvd home players and
on macs and windows computers, with dvd readers. Moreover I need
that the same DVD contains a directors project (the same project
for mac and win system) that start automatically, when the dvd is
inserted in a dvd reader of a computer.
Is it possible?
Does director make it (DVD video + DVD rom with a directors
project?
Director vs DVD Studio Pro in order to obtain a master DVD
hybrid (DVD video + DVD rom with a directors project)?
Thanks for your attention,
Mirone

> Here's one note on PC/DVD-Video hybred production
>
>
http://www.directorforum.de/showthread.php?t=53380
Wahey!!! That's me!!! Crikey I don't remember posting to that
forum!?!
Anyway, back to your problem - as already noted there really
isn't an
elegant way of solving it! You quite literally have to whack
everything into
one folder - when it comes to hybrid DVD-Videos there's no
'nice partitions'
as we have with hybrid CD-ROM I'm afraid!
The route I took was to develop the DVD-Video and add the
Director Windows
projector and its gubbings via the ROM content folder [used
Encore - but
DVDSP isn't too far apart].
Also within this DVD-ROM folder lay a Mac disc image [DMG] of
our Director
Mac projector with it's associated Xtras, etc. - with enough
time on my
hands I could easily have added asset sharing but time was
tight to say the
least and I knew I had lots and lots of space on the DVD so
basically
packaged all the assets together with the projector within
the
aforementioned Mac disc image. I also added a PDF + text
document at the DVD
root level explaining to Mac users that they would have to
mount the
included Mac disc image to gain access to the data side of
the disc.
As it's been pointed out already it isn't pretty and it isn't
elegant,
but... it works!! I was also advised by our replicator's that
this is the
"safest" way to go. Yes you could try the Mac partitions
route but there
really is NO guarantee that all standalone DVD players are
capable of
reading the final disc - I wasted numerous coasters with such
ideas and it
was very, VERY hit and miss!
If you've a wide DVD-Video collection take a look around at
some of the
titles that hold ROM content as well and you'll find that the
big studios
also produce their DVD's in the same fashion, for example
[off the top of my
head] the Matrix trilogy are produced in this way.
Good luck...

Solved: DVD-ROM and K7N2G compatibility

Seems that the BTC BDV-108A is compatible, but won't read DVD-R or DVD+R...I was misled by BTC, dammit. It's not a compatibility issue.
Although it looks like a CD Drive from Windows, a regular DVD will work.
Gotta get a new DVD-ROM...thinking about a CD-R/W-DVD-ROM combo. Any suggestions?

MSI has a nice combo drive. I think it's the X48 model. I can't get there right at the moment because their web page is having an issue.
I was thinking about it as well. Than I can get rid of my existing two for the one and save some space.

I have a 2006 15" Macbook Pro with a broken Superdrive and my external USB one just quit working

Why can my LG Portable Super Multi Drive (GP08NU6B) burn discs, but not read them? Right after I burn a DVD successfully, I stick it back in the drive and it says "The disk you have inserted is not readable by this computer" I have a 2006 15" Macbook Pro with a broken Superdrive, and this external disk drive is the only optical drive that worked via USB. This external drive was bought in 2010 and worked fine up until a month ago. This is supposed to be a Plug and Play device, and LG assures me the drivers are already included in Mac OSX, yet it seems somehow my Macbook lost the drivers and it won't let me watch DVDs now or recognize any discs at all!
How can I find and somehow reinstall the firmware for this optical drive?

Sounds more like a hardware issue to me.

External speakers are no longer working, why?

Ive been Apple Airplay and now my external speakers no longer work on my imac, it is something to do with Airplay or is there something that I need to fix or reinstall? Look forward to hearing from you. TIA

Hi,
There are no external speakers in Sound Preferences/ Output, only internal speakers, or if you plug something into the output port, Headphones, or a sound interface device. Hold down the Option key and click on the sound icon in the top menu bar on your display and you will see the options for output and input.
Have you got an audio system plugged into the output port? If it is not working, check your cables.

Please Help My External Speakers Are'n't Working

I am using a powerbook g4 (titanium) and OS 10.4.10. For some reason, my headphone jack plays sound when I plug in headphones but not when I plug in my speakers. Bought new pair of speakers and they still do not get sound ( Is this a coincidence?) I even bought i-mic for using the usb port and I still don't get sound from my external speakers. I've reset the pram and made sure the audio/midi settings are correct. This is too strange....Please someone help.

Sorry, I meant aluminum powerbook not titanium. Also, my headphones work when I plug in the i-mic but not the external speakers.

Boot Windows AND FreeBSD from my MacBook Pro 8,3 using an external DVD drive. I'm considering to remove my DVD-ROM and replace it with an SSD drive. That doesn't seem to work. Why not?

As the title says, I'm attempting to boot off my favorite operating systems, Mac OS X, Windows 7 and FreeBSD from an external DVD drive. However, for some odd reasons, booting the Windows DVD and FreeBSD 9.1 install DVD from the external drive does not seem to work. I was able to create a bootable USB with the Windows installer, but whenever I attempt to do the same with FreeBSD, I only get an error message that says "No bootable device -- press any key to restart." Is this a limitation that Apple deliborately created? If so, why won't Apple let its customers do whatever they please with their computers, considering that customers who want to change the hardware and/or operating systems knows what he is doing, without having to worry about some silly Apple limitations?
If I sound rude, I apologize for that, as no impoliteness is intended from my side.
In advance, thanks. Have a wonderful day, everyone.

That is only partially correct at best.
When you are booting off Windows or any other operating systems that usually don't support EFI (including Windows), your Mac uses something called CSM-BIOS. And as long as that CSM-BIOS implementation on EFI-based Mac do not support booting off from USB (note that Mac OS X Installer works fine when booting from USB), not even a USB Apple SuperDrive which once was an internal drive, there mot definately is something for Apple to fix.
When attempting to install Windows via BootCamp, a somewhat hybrid GTP/MBR table is created. When you boot off the installer disc of the OS you intend to install (i.e. Windows 7, FreeBSD, etc), your Mac might not support the EFI boot option (at least my 2011 17-inch MacBook Pro doesn't support that), so the only way of booting that second OS installer is via the regular BIOS, which Apple's EFI based systems implement as CSM-BIOS.

HT1151 i have a new apple external dvd drive, and i can't get it to work with my iMac?

I have a new apple dvd drive, I was told it will work with my imac, but when i plug it in ...nothing... iv been for update... still nothing. How can i get it to work???

If it is this drive, note that it is for MBA's and Mini's only:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC684ZM/A
Ciao.

External speakers - audio out not working

I have these old Creative speakers with a subwoofer that I often use with my macpro laptop.
I just bought a 4K Mac Pro tower, and on the back, I see two similar jacks, one of them with a little speaker icon, which I assume, means thats where I should plug the speakers in.
I plug my speakers in there and they don't work. I plugged my speakers into the little jack next to it, and it still didn't work. I did this extensively. Stupidly, even.
I plug my speakers in the headphone jack on the front and they work just fine.
The speakers have always worked, we used to use them as part of our home stereo system, and they were plugged into an audio out jack. I've never had a problem with them.
Is there something wrong with the audio out jack on the back of the tower? Is there a way to fix this? A driver? Software? It's not a huge deal, but I would rather keep ugly cables behind my computer.
Thanks!

Do you know if there is a way to have the sound output coming from both analog audio outputs at the same time - from the headphone jack and the back jack? I'm amazed you can't have both working at the same time.
With Audio Hijack Pro
<http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/>
you can take the output from any application, or all system output, and use the "Auxiliary Device Output" effect to send it to a second output device.

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