[G4] G4 Sawtooth Up grade from stock CD Drive To Combo

[John Erdman]

That's odd!  A stock G4 Sawtooth is supposed to be able to play DVDs.

I too have a stock 400MHz G4 but I  have no problem at all watching 
DVD's on it. However, I seem to recall that early on I had to install 
an updated driver for it in order to play DVD's. It would play CD's OK 
but not DVDs.  From the system profiler my hardware is a DVD-ROM 
SR-8584A.

If I had a combo on hand I think I'd install it anyway.  I have to use 
my wife's peecee to burn any CD's.  And I hate that.

John


On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 08:49 AM, Hugo Trottier wrote:

> Hi all, i have this G4 Sawtooth (I belive to be) 400Mhz. I would love 
> for it to be able to play DVD.
> I have got my hand on a un needed Combo Drive From Apple to do the 
> switch with. Will that be enough
> to be able to play DVD or will i also need to replace the Video Card?
>
> Thanks in advance
>