Massive (major?) problems....help, please

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Guy1341

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First off my system:
G4 PowerMac (Quicksilver 2002)
Dual 1Gig processors
1Gig of RAM
Was running 10.3.9....

Now my problem, and I'll try to explain it as well as I can. About a week or so ago my computer just up and died. I don't know how or why. I lost everything. Well, not eveything. I do have a usb external harddrive. But my machine lost the harddrive. So I erased it (writing zeros) formatted it and tried to re-load OSX 10.3 When is gets about half way through the first disk, it stops and it give me this error :"There were errors installing the software". I ran Apple Hardware Test, it passed. I tried to swap out the RAM chips by process of elimination, still does the same thing. And I find it hard to belive that two 512 RAM sticks could go bad at the same time. I've tried to re-load the os about half a dozen times. And each time I get "There were errors installing software". I even tried to load the OS9 re-store disk that came with my machine, but that won't even take. I've removed every bit of third part hardware from system. I'm at my wits end. Tell me anything.....except that the logic board is going bad.
 
it sounds like the hard drive bit the dust. if there were errors, it was becasue the install may not be able to write to the hard drive. it would be the first thing i'd check out after what you have said. any ide drive will work.
 
Replaced hard drive with a brand new Seagate 80gig ATA hard drive. The exact same model that came in the thing. Formatted it and all that jazz. Still having the same problem when trying to install OSX 10.3 (or any other version) "There were errors installing the software". Now comes a stupid question...I noticed that my superdrive is not sounding well. Kind of a churning sound. Could that cause the error while installing the software? Could it not be spinning right so the laser isn't reading correctly? If I replaced the superdrive, would that do any good?
 
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