[P1] An extension conflict I can't fathom.

[Brad Lincoln]

After switching off the old CD driver did you switch on the new one? Or 
was that never switched off?

Brad Lincoln

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 01:48  PM, Small Moose Ltd wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm using an iBook 466SE with MacOS9.0.4 and 320Mb ram.
>
> Recently I tried to run an old peice of software, and it asked me to 
> install
> an older CD driver to make it run. The driver was CD-ROM driver 5.11
> (otherwise known as the Apple CD600 external CD-ROM driver). After 
> that, the
> program worked fine.
>
> The next day I inserted a DVD, and the machine totally locked up. I 
> switched
> off the older CD-ROM driver extension, and also an older copy of Apple 
> CD
> player that was installed along with it. However, the iBook is still 
> acting
> up. It cannot read a DVD disc at all. Either it locks up, and when I 
> hold
> down the button's for a force restart, I get a blank white box in the 
> middle
> of the screen, or a system bomb. Nothing shifts this problem.
>
> The rest of the iBook seems to work fine, all the other programs, but 
> the
> DVD player is not happy at all. Any ideas how to solve this? I thought 
> I
> could just turn off the older extensions and all would be well... not 
> so :(