[muglo] Re: DVD Player on Cube

on 23/6/03 8:19 AM, Martin Albinger at max@xxxxxx wrote:

> Eric D. wrote:
> 
>> 
>> What happens? Does the computer freeze solid or does the DVD player simply
>> stop and require you to press play (or something like that?)?
> 
> There are a variety of things that happen, the worst is that it
> freezes solid requiring a restart using the little reset button
> on the bottom (a real pain to get to!), sometimes quitting the
> the DVD application and restarting it works, other times quitting
> the dvd app and then rebooting the computer normally works,
> sometimes using one of the above and then using the scene
> selector to skip past the scene where the problem initially
> occurred works.
> 
> Strange
> 
> 
>> Also, did you recently add RAM/change hardware?
> 
> Nope, no new hardware.
> 
> Any thoughts on getting a DVD/CD cleaner? or perhaps a
> replacement DVD player.

I'd try a few things (not necessarily in this order):

1. reinstall the OS (this is OS 9 so prone to corruption ;);

2. reinstall the DVD player software;

3. try a third-party DVD player (don't know if there are any for OS 9...
check out www.versiontracker.com);

4. pull your RAM selectively (I assume 1x128 and 1x64) to see if one of the
chips is faulty. You could very easily have been living with a faulty chip
and not known it. Unless you have a severely corrupt chip you would
attribute faulty RAM freezes to regular OS 9 crashes/freezes (from what I
understand, a sizeable % of OS 9 freezes are attributable to bad RAM... in
OS X, if you are getting more than one freeze (not just kernel panic!) per
month, or if you are getting more than two kernel panics/week (especially if
you get multiple panics/day) you almost certainly have bad RAM unless you
are running some very bizarre software setup, or are not running 10.2.4/5/6.

5. The *best* RAM test is OS X! If you run OS X and get regular kernel
panics you can almost certainly blame bad RAM (especially in laptops since
they're very dense and heat sensitive). DVD-playing is another good source
of hardware (mostly RAM, sometimes CPU and rarely something else)
troubleshooting (though, it may not be in your case... it could be software)
b/c DVD-playing without a DVD-daughter card is extremely processor intensive
and generates lots of heat (an issue in G4 Cubes I imagine) (also b/c of the
DVD-ROM spinning). Even a DVD-daughter card generates a lot of heat.

Have fun trouble-shooting, Eric.


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