ComboDrive in DVDless B&W G3

serranoserrano
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I have a rev 1 B&W and i want to remove my current cd-rom and put in a dvd/cd-rw combo drive. I believe that usually this model of mac came with a dvd-decoder card that attached to rage128 they shipped with, will i need to buy one of those cards to attach to my rage128 to view dvd's with the new drive? also will i then need that rage128 to drive my monitor? currently i am using a radeon. lastly will this all work in os x? i'd be happy with using toast to burn cd's and apple's dvd player to play dvd's... is any of this possible?



btw i also posted this in genius bar, but i know this gets more traffic

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    AFAIK, any Rage 128 can be used with the later Apple DVD Player software...even the ones that shipped with the hardware decoder add-on...which was designed for DVD Player 1.x
  • Reply 2 of 3
    thinkingdifferentthinkingdifferent Posts: 1,604member
    I know you can add a cdrw but I haven't heard of anybody adding a dvd drive?? Have you taken a look over at <a href="http://www.xlr8yourmac.com?"; target="_blank">www.xlr8yourmac.com?</a> <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
  • Reply 3 of 3
    hirhir Posts: 66member
    i've added a combo drive in mine. no pci card needed. the model i added is by LG. cost me like $120 in best buy.



    xlr8yourmac is the perfect place to go whenever you're consider ANY update to your mac.
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