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I have noticed that when I use someone elses power cord it freezes much much less frequently. But it still freezes eventually. With my power cord it always freezes before it boots. I brought it to a mac genius who told me that there was no way it could be an issue with the power cord (which im...

I am having this exact same problem with my iBook G4. It kept freezing on startup so I ran a hardware test. Both long and short hardware tests passed although they also froze once or twice. I tried reinstalling the OS but it gets stuck about 30% through the install. What to do??