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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cowasaki" data-source="post: 614780" data-attributes="member: 36098">You can install panther or tiger on it without problem. You can even install leopard on it if it is 867MHz or faster. You should be able to boot it off an external firewire drive (I have done with mine).There are quite a number of plans on the internet showing how to install a new hard drive in an iBook but it is not the easiest task in the world. Do a search for one of my previous posts when I explained the problems I had installing one (and I am a component level service engineer!)When I read your post I straight away thought hard drive. It does seem to be the most likely but it could well just be the install of Mac OS that is junked rather than the drive itself.You could try downloading and burning a G4 compatible linux distribution and installing that.  This would show you if the hardware is working!</blockquote>