Just Bought 15 Inch Powerbook, Freezes On Installation - Help!

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Hey Everyone -
I have acrossed over from the darkside and am now a citizen of "Mac World."
I just bought a G4 15 inch Titanium Powerbook. My friend got me a great deal since he works at an Apple retailer. I had him upgrade my ram to 1 gig of Kingston RAM.

Now I turned on my powerbook and it froze when it got to the "getting started" page after it did the big dramatic intro. I kept turning it off and on and finally it went to the registration. I registered but then it told me to the turn off the computer. I did this and then it asked me to re-register as if I was just booting for the first time.

So I kept rebooting and finally decided to put the installation CD in and hold "C". Now this got me into the installation and everything was going alrite. Then it started freezing at the part where it was installing the lexmark printer devices.

I rebooted and this time chose to use the option where it erases everything first and then installs. It then froze at the exact same place.

I am really lost, and now I have a computer with absolutely nothing on it.

HELP!!!!
 
Welcome to the forum and the Mac World! ;)
I would suggest you to uninstall your Kingston RAM. Hope it is just one module and the other one is the default apple memory. If you bought two Kingston 512mb, is there any possibility to get your hands on different memory brands? Actually Kingston should work fine but who knows.. However, your problem seems to have something to do with some hardware components. Try your hardware test CD that is bundled with your tibook and test your system.
Good luck!
 
I would second the notion of the RAM being bad... Kingston used to sell quality memory that was guaranteed to work -- at one time, it was even considered the best RAM. As of late, though, it seems that Kingston RAM can cause problems under Panther.

Ask your bud to swap out the memory for you, or remove any Kingston modules he installed and run your PowerBook with the default Apple memory. If that works out, then you'll need to replace the Kingston RAM with a different brand or different module.

Good luck, and I'm sorry this happened on your first experience owning a Mac -- don't let it lead you to believe this is how Macs are, though!
 
I wish I could just take it back. However I purchased it online from a store in Irvine, California because of a discount I was able to get.

I think it is the RAM as well because Ive checked other forums and people say the same thing. I just hope I dont have to purchase new RAM. I will put the OEM RAM in and let you guys know later on today if it works :)

Cheers for the advice so far.

What brand of RAM do you recommend for the powerbook? I purchased 2 512 kingston, so I will need to replace them with the OEM 256 strips.
 
update:

I took out my kingston ram and replaced it with the OEM ram. Well, I am typing this message from a coffee shop on the powerbook :) SO thats the problem.
 
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