Lite-On combo drive PB G3 bronze

OK, I'll try to give all the details. I have PB G3 400 Bronze with 10 gig HD. It came with CD-ROM. I partitioned the hard to two 5 gig partitions and installed OS 10.2.8 and 9.2.2. I then purchased a Lite-On Combo drive (LSC-24081M) and installed it to play DVD's. It shows up in Apple System Profiler and says 'fully supported'. I can play dvd's fine in OS9 using Apple DVD Player (v1.3). I since have run across (in this forum) Pacifist v1.6.3 and extracted and installed the OSX DVD Player v3.2 Now when i open that player (OSX DVD v3.2) i get the following error message
"DVD Player encountered serious error. The current machine or system configuration is not supported (-70013)." Is it possible to make this work. By the way i cannot boot from this drive (don't know why, maybe somebody can tell me that too). I tried installing my old CD-ROM but it does not work (won't read CD's). So here's the bottom line can i make OSX DVD work or do have to continue to use OS9? And as side note, what if i have to boot from a CD, what are my options there?
Any help would be appreciated. Thx Dave
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David,
I am very sorry...I misread or misinterpreted the model powerbook you have. When you said you had a PB G3 400 Bronze, I thought you had the PB G3 400 FireWire with a bronze keyboard...I had just recently been trying to explain to someone why there is a 400 MHz Lombard with a bronze keyboard and a 400MHz Pismo with a bronze keyboard.
Unfortunately, the PB G3 Series Bronze Keyboard M5343 a.k.a. Lombard does •not• support Apple DVD Player in OSX. Both the earlier Wallstreet and your Lombard require DVD hardware decoding; the Wallstreet uses a DVD Decoder PC card and your Lombard has this hardware on the logic board. For whatever reason, Apple chose not to support DVD Player in OSX on these two 'books. The only way to watch DVDs is to restart into 9.x.
Even though I have mislead you to this point, please try a few tests to see if either of your optical drives will boot:
- Reset the PRAM, then try booting a CD; corrupted PRAM can prevent a boot to CD.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
- Next, mount the CD on the desktop when booted to the HD, then select it in the Startup Disk panel and restart. Some of these drives will not boot to the 'c' key but will respond to the Startup Disk panel.
- Also try the 'c' key after the PRAM reset.
- One other key combo to boot a CD...press the 'delete-option-command-shift' keys on restart and hold until a startup volume is selected. This combo forces a bypass of the HD.
If you know someone with a Lombard or Pismo (FireWire), ask to borrow their CD or DVD drive for your install.
I don't know how successful a SCSI Disk Mode install will be. Be advised that the Lombard requires a working OS on the HD to successfully enter SCSI Disk Mode unlike earlier or later powerbooks. In addition, the Lombard requires a specific setting in the PowerBook SCSI Setup control panel:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25425
Also, here is an article on using SCSI Disk Mode:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=13611
I hope you can avoid the SCSI stuff and get a CD to boot.

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