Burn dvd software for mac. Fixes copying Audio-CD discs (would crash).

Hi, Great forum! I've dipped in here many times over the years but never joined, however, I now need a bit of advice (or perhaps reassurance that my findings/intended course of action, aren't crazy!) My 466mhz G4 Powermac 'Digital Audio' has given me 18 years of near faultless service in a small recording studio I have at home. I run eMagic's Logic Audio Gold 4.8.x under OS9.2.2 for all my recording, editing, production needs and OSX 10.3.9 Panther for everything else (although, to be fair, the early version of Firefox I had on there didn't really like the modern internet so a PC I was given a year ago covers internet and email). Over the years, both original 30gb IBM Deskstars have been replaced wih 80gb Seagate Barracudas, the RAM has been increased to just under 1gb and I replaced the original graphics card to an ATI Radeon (the exact model escapes me at the moment). Despite being an old system, under OS9 it was as solid as a rock and along with Logic, allowed me to do everything I needed in terms of recording etc. Shortly before Christmas 2018, for the first time ever, it failed to boot - there was power, the power button glowed white, the fan span up but the longest it would stay on was about 30 secs and the monitor never woke - this was probably the first time I'd turned it on in about two months.

I was working so crazy in the lead up to Christmas, the New Year was the earliest chance I had to investigate. I was advised that the first thing I should do was to hoover it out and change the battery - now at this point I should point out that back in my dim, darkest, past I briefly worked in IT so I am aware of the dangers of static etc and whenever I worked on the mac, I always used to leave the power lead attached at both ends, with it turned off at the wall socket, earthing myself against a blank PCI plate. I was concerned about sticking the hoover nozzle inside the mac but I did my usual earthing procedure (for what good it was?) and took great care around the components and never touched the motherboard or cards. I also ended up removing the main fan assembly as the blades were caked in dust and cleaned it thoroughly and then, finally, replaced the battery.

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I then disconnected both internal hard drives, removed the additional memory I'd added, removed the PCI-324 card that my audio interface uses and tried again (I left the graphics card and I couldn't physically get round the back of the CD-ROM drive to pull the power chord out). Doing some research online, I found out about the PMU reset button and tried one quick press of that. After those various stages, there's still power but it won't even turn on for 30 secs - with a short press on the power button, it glows white and there's a brief spin of the fan that's all.

Should I admit defeat? Looking at my options now, I'm considering buying secondhand, however, with very little budget, I need another mac that will essentially slot into place in my studio without the need for upgrades to outboard gear and software. I absolutely need a true dual boot machine (not OS9 within OSX classic environment) and ideally 5v PCI slots since the PCI-324 card is a 5v card and there's a grey area over whether my aged MOTU 2408 mkll will be happy with a PCI-424 card. There are, of course, large numbers of macs for sale on eBay etc. And I've been advised to look for a MDD model, the last that dual booted (I found a helpful thread on here about the best machines to run OS9) which makes sense but one thing I'm unsure about is getting data from my old machine onto the replacement.

My old machine had Ultra ATA/66 drives in it, as far as I'm aware, all the MDD models have Ultra ATA/100 drives - is it worth me looking for a non MDD model first so I can boot up with my original HDD's and then find a MDD machine that I could hook up to it and transfer data across? Or is there a better way to do it that won't involve buying two machines? I do have a backup of my old machine on an external Firewire drive but it's about two years old.