Ok, I have tried searching, but have found nothing similar to my situation so hopefully someone out there has either gone through this or can enlighten me on the subject a little. I have a 1.33 PPC 12" iBook that I gave to my mom bc I simply did not want to get rid of it. Before I gave it to her for Christmas, I put a new hard drive in, maxed out the ram 1.25!
, and a superdrive. Everything ran fine and then leopard finalllly came out and I put that on, even though my mac was at the cut off for requirements. Still, all was well. Just recently it seems as if it is dragging or maybe it is just me coming off of a MBP, but it constantly got the beach ball, not a fun experience for first time mac users in theirs 40's? . So I went to grab the restore disc that came with the iBook out of the box, 10.4, and it only gets to 4%-40%, varying each time. I had similar problems with leopard when I installed it. I think it took 3-4, but it finally worked. Any ideas on this would be great. The only thing I can think of is trying another disc, but that is like finding a needle in a haystack for me, considering everyone has intel macs now. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks