Computer ejects Tiger DVD during install

Half the time the computer immediately ejects the DVD upon inserting. The other half of the time it ejects it during restart mode, prior to receiving the installation screen. My firmware is updated. I have attempted to restart while holding down C key as well as using the start up disk. All attempts have sent the DVD flying out of the computer. Any suggestions before I head out to the Apple Store?
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.8 GHz & 1 GB SDRAMM

have you tried a firmware reset? boot holding apple-option-o-f and type in following commands--
reset-nvram (hit return)
reset-all (hit return)
the second command restarts the computer. this works a lot when disks are rejected. but with the install disk it may be something more complicated. you could also try a pmu reset. [ : ) ]

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Why does emac eject tiger DVD?

I am trying to update my OS from 10.2.8 to Tiger. I have an emac G4 with its original DVD CD-RW/DVD-ROM (vendor: HL-DT-ST). When I click restart to run the installation, before the computer shuts down, it shows "you have inserted a disk containing no volume that mac OSX can read" with buttons ignore or eject. Even if I click ignore, the computer ejects Tiger when it restarts and boots up my originial operating system. I can play DVDs w/ no problem. I tried downloading superdrive but I received a message saying my computer didn't need it. I restarted holding the "C" key. I see a file folder with a question mark and the OS logo and then it boots up the OS. I also switched to system 9.0 and that said it didn't recognize the Tiger DVD. Eekk!

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Updating from 10.2.8, ejects Tiger DVD

I am trying to update my OS from 10.2.8 to Tiger. I have an emac G4 with its original DVD CD-RW/DVD-ROM (vendor: HL-DT-ST). When I click restart to run the installation, before the computer shuts down, it shows "you have inserted a disk containing no volume that mac OSX can read" with buttons ignore or eject. Even if I click ignore, the computer ejects Tiger when it restarts and boots up my originial operating system. I can play DVDs w/ no problem. I tried downloading superdrive but I received a message saying my computer didn't need it. I restarted holding the "C" key. I see a file folder with a question mark and the OS logo and then it boots up the OS. I also switched to system 9.0 and that said it didn't recognize the Tiger DVD. Eekk!
I have 640 mb in memory, 700mhz power pc G4 processor. 16+GB of harddrive space.

ceci,
in this case the boot-rom cannot detect a bootable system on the DVD. There might be different reasons for this behaviour:
1. Bad burn (this happens once in a while)
2. scratches on the DVD
3. hardware problems wwith the DVD-drive
For the cases 1 and 2 you might get a replacement disk from Apple. Contact the Apple Store or go to one.

My computer ejects a dvd

My Mac Book, ejects a dvd after about 30 seconds, it doesn't recognise it, i can play the dvd on my friends slightly newer mac book and i can play other dvds fine on the mac book, any suggestions??
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Let's do a test to see if this is a problem with your optical drive.
Find the install DVD that came with your MacBook.
Restart the MacBook and hold down the option key during startup until symbols appear on the screen.
Insert the install DVD into the optical drive slot.
If the MacBook spits out the install DVD, then there is definitely a problem with the optical drive. Contact Apple to get it repaired. If you are still under warranty or have an AppleCare Protection Plan it should be covered.
Best of luck.

Why is my computer ejecting my DVD before it is done burning?

I created a movie in iMovie and now I am working in iDVD, I finished the project and have tried several times to burn it to a blank DVD. It goes through most of the process but right before it should be done burning it ejects the DVD. So I've tried putting it back in and it does the something all over again. Please help.

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My computer ejecting all dvd's automatically

my MBP is ejecting all my DVDs without them being even recognized by computer yet.
Tried taking out battery and AC power and reseting manager, still didn't work.
any ideas on how can it be solved?

I honestly think you'll need to have your laptop replaced. I am already on my second MBP after my first one had superdrive issues. The genius at the Apple store I visited said that my superdrive issue wasn't the first one he had seen and thought that there could be more of a wide spread issue with the new MBs and MBPs. I called 1-800-My-Apple and shipped my defective MBP via FedEx. Apple then shipped my replacement from China.
To be honest though, I am not sure if the issue has been completely resolved. I bought a new CD the other day and couldn't load it properly into my machine. I had to load it into my old MB, rip it into iTunes, and then move it over to my new MBP. Uhh...
Maybe another trip to the Genius Bar is in my future...
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Difficulty starting from Tiger DVD on new hard drive for installation

I recently replaced the hard drive on my flatscreen iMac. I am having difficulty starting from the Tiger DVD to install the system software. The disk drive does have DVD-R capabilities, but is not a super drive. I hold down the "c" button as I start up with the Tiger DVD, but the screen appears the same way as it would if nothing were in the disk drive (grey with alternating smiley/"?" folder). I attempted to boot with my old 10.2 system CD, and was again unsuccessful as the CD ejected after a few more hopeful noises from inside the console and returned to my previously mentioned grey screen.
I also attempted to start while holding the option key which produced an uneventful blue screen with 2 arrow buttons that did nothing when I clicked them.
Keyboard and mouse are both working.

Mac Help
Index
Changing your startup disk
You can make your computer start up from a CD, a network volume, a different disk or disk partition, or another operating system (such as Mac OS 9 if your computer supports it). To do so, you change your startup disk.
Open System Preferences and click Startup Disk.
If necessary, click the lock icon and type the name and password for an administrator user.
Click the icon of the system folder or system volume that you want to use, then click Restart.
IMPORTANT: When selecting a network startup volume, be sure you select a valid network startup volume and not a network install image. Choosing a network install image reinstalls your system software and may erase the contents of your hard disk. A standard network volume icon appears as a globe and Mac OS X system folder. When you select a network volume icon, a message appears in the Startup pane describing the volume. A network install icon appears as a globe with downward pointing green arrow.
Another way to select a startup disk is to hold down the Option key as you restart your computer. You'll see the available startup disks and can select one.
If your computer is on a network and a network startup volume is available, you can start up from the network startup volume by holding down the N key as you restart your computer.
If you start up your computer in Mac OS 9, use the Startup Disk control panel in the Apple menu to switch back to your Mac OS X startup disk. Then restart the computer.
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I'm using an OS X 10.5 Leopard "Upgrade DVD" I bought with the up-to-date program when I bought a 2007 Macbook Pro (3,1) with Tiger bundled.
I tried to use it on my PowerBook G4 500 MHz (PowerBook 3,2), but it gave me the message:
"Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer"
My upgrade DVD looks like the retail version (aside from the "upgrade DVD" text), and it doesn't have any text explicitly suggesting that it's a restore DVD for any specific model. Can I still assume this is effectively a retail DVD?

Came with 2007 Macbook Pro (3,1) implies that it can't be use with PowerBook G4 500 MHz (PowerBook 3,2). That violates the terms of use. Additionally, it's machine-specific, as described in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2681 If you want to put Leopard on the PB, buy the retail version.

Tower only has CD Drive, can't install Tiger DVD

Obviously I could go buy an external DVD Drive. This was the answer I got when asking Applecare if there was a way for me to install my Tiger DVD onto my Powermac G4 Tower with only a CD Drive. I know there are other ways around this problem. I called the Apple Store, and they informed me that Apple will send a CD version that I can install for a nominal fee. This is better.
But I searched some more and someone mentioned that I could take certain files from the Tiger DVD (on another computer with a DVD drive) and burn them to a CD and just use that.
Is this possible? If so, which files are necessary to achieve this?
Thanks in advance

Hello Brad.
I don't know about taking certain files only from the Tiger DVD and burning them to CD - not sure how anyone made this work so your best options are as follows:
Use the Media Exchange Program to exchange your DVD media for CD media or if you have access to another Mac with Firewire and a DVD drive, you can connect the two computers via Firewire Target Disk mode which will allow you to install Tiger from the Mac with the DVD drive on the Mac without.

Tiger/Panther install problems - won't boot from Tiger DVD or Panther CD

My Mum has an iMac G3 CRT, running at 500MHz, with 1GB RAM, a 20GB HD, & a slot-loading internal CD-RW.
The iMac in question is the model described here: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/stats/imac500indigo.html
She only uses the machine for email & web browsing, but because it runs OS 9, it won't run a modern web browser (it's stuck on Internet Explorer 5.1.7) so lots of websites don't load properly or work at all. This is fair enough as IE for the Mac hasn't been updated since 2001.
My idea was to upgrade the machine from OS 9.2.2 to (ideally) 10.4.11, or failing that, 10.3.9, which would then let her use the current version of Safari, or possibly even Firefox. (Any thoughts on which would be easier for a currently IE-using technically-challenged pensioner would be welcome, although I prefer Safari myself, despite its shortcomings).
The iMac only had it's original 128MB of RAM until recently, but I persuaded her that it would be a good idea to spend 70-odd Pounds on 1GB of RAM so that OS X could not only be installed (which would let a modern browser be used) but would run at a useable speed. The minimum requirement for Panther is 128MB of RAM, but I suspected that it would run like treacle on a 128MB G3, and I was hoping to go for Tiger anyway, which requires 256MB.
As Tiger comes on a DVD (I have the retail/generic version) and the iMac has no DVD drive, I borrowed a friends external LaCie FireWire DVD-RW drive (the Porsche styled one). The DVD mounted first time, and the Startup Disk control panel let me select it.
When I restarted, I got the initial OS X pale grey screen with the dark grey Apple logo in the centre, with the spinning circle thing below, but after a minute or so, I could hear the DVD stop spinning in the drive, and a few seconds later the dark grey Apple logo changed into a dark grey "circle with a line through it" logo, with the normal circle thing still spinning below. This is how things stayed for many minutes, so I just restarted with the external drive off, and eventually got back to a normal 9.2.2 boot-up.
Next I tried running the "Mac OS X Install" application on the Tiger DVD from within 9.2.2. This started and came up with a big Tiger logo screen with a button labelled "Restart". Clicking it brought up an OS 9 error dialogue though, which said something along the lines of "the Tiger DVD cannot be selected as the startup disk" with a number 2 in brackets at the end of the error message - like this: (2)
This error occurs both if I select the Tiger DVD in the Startup Disk control panel prior to running the "Mac OS X Install" application, or if I select the internal hard disk. I know the DVD isn't faulty, as I used it to successfully boot my own Mac (a Power Mac G4 Mirror Drive Doors) just the other day, in order to repair permissions on the startup disk.
At this point I gave up on Tiger and tried to use the first of 3 Panther CDs that I have. These 3 CDs are burnt copies that came with my own Mac and contain version 10.3.2.
The CD refused to be selectable in the Startup Disk control panel. It's icon was greyed out, and so I couldn't boot from it. I tried running the "Install Mac OS X" application on the CD from within OS 9, but got the same error with the 2 in brackets when I clicked the "Restart" button, just like with the Tiger DVD.
Initially, I suspected that these Panther discs might be machine-specific, rather than the retail/generic version, because of the first CD being greyed-out in the Startup Disk control panel, but then the error dialogue that matched the one I got when I tried the Tiger DVD makes me think that my Panther CDs might be generic after all. Examining the first CD on my own Mac, it appears to be generic, but I'm not 100% sure, as the CDs are copies and as such don't have the usual identifying information on the labels. There are no machine-specific files that I can find on the first CD, which is dated January 9th 2004.
Various websites mention that when Tiger was current, Apple would swap a retail copy of the DVD for a set of CDs. I've looked on eBay but not been able to find any. This doesn't surprise me though, as there will be very few copies of Tiger on CD out there, and even fewer copies that people would want to sell.
There are a few retail copies of Panther available on CD, but if my current burnt copies of these discs are in fact generic, then buying a new set would make no difference. Besides, I'd prefer to use Tiger.
The Tiger minimum requirements (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1514) say:
"To use Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, your Macintosh needs: DVD drive (DVD-ROM), Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) or SuperDrive (DVD-R) for installation"
What it doesn't say though, is whether the DVD drive has to be an internal one with Apple firmware/modifications, or whether an external 3rd party one will do. However, I know from various websites that it's possible to load Tiger onto this sort of Mac, and sometimes even older non-FireWire Macs, despite what the minimum system requirements say.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd be much obliged!
Thanks.

The problem is now solved, but I'm not sure how I managed it, unfortunately.
Having read the article at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75430, I checked both my Tiger DVD and my first Panther CD, and neither had the firmware updater on them, despite what the article said, so I downloaded it. However I was sure I'd applied a firmware update to the iMac a long time ago, and the 4.1.9 version number seemed familiar.
When I checked, I had in fact already applied the firmware update a few years ago!
I tried running the "Mac OS X Install" application on the Tiger DVD from within 9.2.2 again, and got the same error message as before. I was wrong about the error code though. It was minus 2 in brackets, not 2 in brackets.
The full text of the error message is:
An error occurred.
"Startup Disk was unable to select the
install CD as the startup disk. (-2)"
I tried selecting the DVD manually in the Startup Disk control panel (as before) and running the application again gave the same error message (also as before).
I then went into Extensions Manager to see if there was anything there that might be interfering with things. The only thing that caught my eye was the LaCie SilverLining control panel (which I think was version 6.4.5a). This was something that originally came on a floppy disk accompanying an external hard drive that I used to use years ago at a place I worked, and I used to find it invaluable back in the OS 9 G1 Power Mac magneto-optical external drive days!
I couldn't remember what it was doing on the iMac, but I switched it off, and then clicked "Restart", hoping that when I rebooted (in OS 9) the error message wouldn't come up when I ran the "Mac OS X Install" application.
However, I'd forgotten that I'd switched the Startup Disk control panel to the DVD, so when the iMac restarted, the initial OS X dark grey Apple logo screen appeared, and I expected the dark grey "circle with a line through it" logo to appear shortly afterwards, but it didn't! The iMac booted up from the DVD, which then let me install Tiger! I was then able to apply the 10.4.11 update, plus all the others that Software Update provided. About half a dozen restarts and several hours later, the iMac is now fully updated & configured, favourites are copied over to Safari 3.1.2, and all I have to do is teach my Mum how to use the OS X Finder, Mail & Safari, as opposed to the OS 9 Finder, Outlook Express & Internet Explorer...
Switching off the SilverLining control panel seemed to do the trick, but since the iMac then rebooted from the DVD, not the internal hard disk, I don't see how it could have possibly had any bearing on things! Very weird!
Anyway, thanks to Allan Jones & spudnuty for their advice. All's well that ends well!

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Appreciate a confirmation either way..
Thnx
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