So I have a powerbook G4 I'm working on. It had 10.3.9 and wasn't running properly. So I installed 10.4. it kernel panicked once during installation so I restarted and it made it through. During set up I had to restart several times because it froze. Eventually I got logged in. The machine displayed that it was connected to our unsecured wireless network but the machine couldn't load anything online or do software updates. So I restarted, same issue. I plugged the machine into the router with an ethernet cable and it loaded a website, then froze and required me to force restart. It continued freezing so I removed the airport card thinking it was the problem, same freezing issues.
So far what I have done is:
-Reset the PMU multiple times
-Swapped ram
-Run apple hardware test twice, it passed both times
-Booted from the tiger install CD, the disk and disk permissions verify fine
-Booted into verbost mode, there is no error message, just this huge block of 0's that are surrounded by white, which is very strange.
Now the machine will not fully boot, it freezes on the blue screen after the grey apple and gears, but the loading bar and screen doesn't come up, it's just blue.
So what should I try next?
Thanks for any help.
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