[X-Newbies] Weird Tiger system behavior with iLife DVDs.

[Brian Durant]

On 1/16/07, W Lane <wilann at telusplanet.net> wrote:
>
> On 07-Jan-16, at 1:44 AM, Brian Durant wrote:
>
> > What the #*%! is going on??? Is there a solution? Has anyone come
> > across anything as weird as this before?
>
>
> There is a thread on Macintouch here which, while referring to iLife
> '05 may shed some light
>
> http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/ilife05/topic2262.html
>
> that talks about this issue, including
>
>
> Spider Mann
>
> A reader wrote: "The replacement iLife 05 DVD that Apple sent still
> does not work on my dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC. The disk won't mount and is
> ejected. However both copies of the DVD mount on my older dual 1.42
> GHz G4 PowerPC. I guess I will call Apple Support again."
> This user needs to take their G5 to an Apple Authorized repair center
> for checkout. My 1.8DP G5, and many other G5 owners, have had dead or
> dying SuperDrives that need replacement. Apple's discussion boards
> are full of reports of this happening. My machine worked fine for
> about eight months, then all of a sudden it wouldn't read CDs. Then
> it wouldn't read DVDs. Then it wouldn't burn anything. It had the
> same clicking sound as the reader above.
> I took my machine in and, after having it shipped to Apple, had it
> back five days later. The new SuperDrive works perfectly and there
> has not been a single problem.
> Feb. 15, 2005
> Chad
>
> I also can't mount the iLife '05 DVD in my PowerBook G4 (15" 1.5 GHz,
> Jul 2004, Matsushita UJ-825 SuperDrive). The DVD will mount just fine
> on my 3rd Gen iMac G4 1 GHz (Sony SuperDrive). I even copied the DVD
> on the iMac and the copy would not mount on the PowerBook! The disk
> doesn't spit out, it just spins a while and then stops spinning.
> A while back a friend gave me some pictures on a CD and didn't finish
> the session (I do not know what PC software she used). The unfinished
> CD wouldn't mount on the PowerBook but would mount just fine on my
> iMac. I'm wondering if Apple finished the session properly on these
> iLive '05 DVD's? As for my drive going bad, I just don't think that's
> it, or the copy would've worked? It seems like it has to do with the
> formatting of the DVD. I guess I'll have to call Apple.

Hmmm something to watch out for in the future. In my case, I tried
zapping the PRAM (4x) and now finally, I have the iLife programs
installed again on my G5.

Cheers,

Brian