[z16bitsega]

I bought a used 17 inch Powerbook G4 (1ghz, 512mb ram, superdrive) that was advertised as needing a hard drive and a battery. I installed Tiger on it (with some difficulty, it locked up once on the "preparing for installation" screen), but whenever it tries to boot after the installation finishes, I get a kernel panic before the OS loads. I tried reinstalling twice and got the same thing. I think it's probably the logic board, but is there anything else I should try before I give up and list it on ebay as a parts unit?

[ibook_steve]

It's not clear from your post, but when you say that it is "needing a hard drive," do you mean that you installed a new drive or are you trying to install the OS on what is probably a bad drive?

Steve

[z16bitsega]

I installed a known working drive in it.

[Headshot]

You must mean 1.3ghz right? I got the same used too. Panicked right out of the package, and I took
a bad RAM module out and it worked great. Now it's doing the same thing, after I installed Tiger.
So I went back to Panther, and it's kinda still doing it. I don't know what to do, I could take it to the Geniuses at the Mac store, and if it turns out to be RAM, then I guess I'll tell them thanks and go get my ram at OWC, LOL!
Hell, this deserves its own post.

[z16bitsega]

Bumping this to give an update, just in case anyone else has this issue. The problem turned out to be the internal modem; I disconnected it, and the computer hasn't given me a problem since.