Mac Ibook G4 With Problems Re-Installing Operating System. Please Help!

[LinaresArthur]

Hi Everyone Im A PC Technician So I Don't Know Really Much About Mac's. In Hand I Downloaded OS X Tiger 10.4 And Panther From Torrents Downloads. Also I Was Able To Get A Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard DVD Restore Disc Original That Came With A MacBook Pro That Came Out Like A Month Or So.

So I Got The Computer From A Customer To Fix. I Oppened It And Pulled The Hardrive Out And Found Out That It Had Mechanical Problems So What I Did Was To Purchase A Replacement HDD From NewEgg (Model Western Digital 80GB ATA HDD). I Installed The New One And Put Everything Back Together And I Burn The Mac OS'X Images On DVD Which Was Tiger 10.4. Then On The First Tries I Put The Dvd In The Drive But Nothing Will Come Up Exept A Mac Logo With A Thing Under The Logo Wich Appeared To Look Like It Was Loading. Somehow I Got Frustuated And Let The Mac On Over Night And With The Mac Logo Which Looked Frozen. The Next Morning I Saw The Mac And Found Out I Was Displaying The Mac Wizard Intallation Setup. So What I Did Was Partioned The New HDD With Mac Type On Drive Wizard And Then Went Through The Entire Setup. It Completed And Restarted But I Was Able Create Login Id And Such. Then I Was On The Desktop But Suddendly It Frooze. Then What I Did Was To Restart It But I Wont Boot Up Anymore. So Now Everytime I Turn it On A Black Display Comes Up And Some White Greyish Stuff Appears In My Screan Slowly And Turns Gray Then It Goes Away Slowly Returning To Its Original State Being A Black Screen.

Any Suggestons Of What Can I Do To This Mac. Some People Mention To Me Jumper Settings. Others Say its Because I Do Not Have Original Restore CD's But I Tried The Original Mac Installation Disc That Is Mac OSX Leopard. Now Any Cd I Put While Pressing "C" Key I Can Hear The Drive Spinning Trying To Read Something For Like 5 Secs And Sadly It Stops.

Anyone Can Help.

 

[old-wiz]

The forum cannot help you with illegal software. If you want to download such things it's up to you to deal with it. Forums won't allow assistance for it.

 

[Sorkvild]

That and capitalizing every frakkin' word is more of a put off.

 

[silverblack]

The restore DVD/CD will only work in the specific model it was intended to. Since the owner no longer have his, he can go buy a legal retail copy of Leopard DVD. It will be bootable. Then use Disk Utility to format the new drive to Mac OS Extented (Journaled).

 

[DesignerOnMac]

Your friend should have given you the original disks that came with the laptop.

I agree with everyone here, we do not condone pirated software.

 

[California]

If it is a 1.33ghz or 1.42ghz last revision iBook I have an extra set of the restore dvds you can buy from me.

So weird hearing from PC techs, btw. It is like hearing from a different planet. But it sounds like that iBook G4 has the classic video problem.

If you are really a great Tech, you should get out your soldering gun and be able to fix it from the directions on xlr8yourmac.

I say that last sentence with reservations because I have YET to find a REAL computer tech, Apple or otherwise, who is savvy enough to perform the soldering skills needed on those iBooks. I am just a girl who has never soldered in her life and I am brave enough to try it.