Wont recognise OS X upgrade

Please can someone help.

I have a iBook G4 and a few weeks ago upgraded the RAM and the OS X to Leopard, I think it was Tiger I think (10.2 or 10.3) but when I go to upgrade Quicktime and other software it says it cant, as it needs to be 10.4 or higher. Its like it cant see the 10.5 on my Mac.
Anyone got any ideas?

G'day and welcome to the forums.

Are you running Leopard OS X.5.8 natively on the G4? Only the last three or four models are over the 867MHz processor limit required by Leopard. Whilst there are programs to enable installation on slower processors, they do sometimes present problems. What does Apple System Profiler say?

Tiger is OS X.4, not X.2 or X.3.

Natively??

This is what my profiler says.

Model Name: iBook G4
Model Identifier: PowerBook6,5
Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (1.1)
Processor Speed: 1.33 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 1
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.25 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.8.7f1

It was 10.3 PANTHER

Natively is when the OS runs direct from install. What does About this Mac say regarding the OS? Under Mac OS X it will have the version number in light grey. And what of the Leopard OS X.5 install DVD? Black or silver/grey?

TrinityUTT said:

Please can someone help.

I have a iBook G4 and a few weeks ago upgraded the RAM and the OS X to Leopard, I think it was Tiger I think (10.2 or 10.3) but when I go to upgrade Quicktime and other software it says it cant, as it needs to be 10.4 or higher. Its like it cant see the 10.5 on my Mac.
Anyone got any ideas?

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Since there was some confusion as to what OS version was on this computer previously (10.2, 10.3, or 10.4...sounds like it was 10.3)...are you 100% sure you installed OS 10.5 "Leopard"?

The "System Profiler" info posted above does not include the current OS version installed on the computer.

- Nick

Im very new to macs so sorry about wrong info.
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a).
When you said "Only the last three or four models are over the 867MHz processor limit required by Leopard" I posted the processor speed.

Well Apple System profiler sees it as Leopard.

Try repair Permissions in Disk Utility and download again. Not running a download manager are you such as Speed Downloader and current version of your browser?