Clean Reinstall then Quad won't complete its Boot-Up

First I had problems with the Mac not recognising my Sony Video Camera.
I'm familiar with the Quicktime 7 issue, so I did all the QuickTime receipts/QT Fresh Install stuff. Still recognition of the camera was erratic and then seemed to be getting worse.
Next, my new (Feb 28 2006) G-Tech G-Raid 1tb went off the road - erratic recognition and VERY slow (if any) folder navigation - then ceased altogether.
Worse, the Quad suddenly started hanging and throwing up text:
(These are some of the more interesting bits).
System Failure: CPU=1
Code: 015B0930
Unknown Failure Code
Latest Crash Info for CPU1
Exception State SV-0x000000000 (I think).
Backtrace terminated - unaligned frame address: 0X48041EE9
Memory access Exception (1,0,0)
Waiting for remote (something) debugger connection.
(Fans were at full tilt).
Well, I did two hardware tests (at over 4 hours apiece) and nothing showed, so I erased and reinstalled.
I couldn't get the DVD drawer open, so I firewired to my G5 Dual and targetted the Quad.
This made seemed to help but the Quad still wasn't stable, so I did a fresh reinstall again by using the OS X Install Disk.
I ditched all but the basic install option.
Now the Quad won't finish Booting Up.
It gets to the end of the progress monitor (candy bar) thingy and then just hangs.
It'll boot from my LaCie 500 GB HD though - and seems to run OK from that.
What are my chances?
Andy
G5 Quad. 8 GB. 250 & 500 GB Int'l Drives. G-Tech G-Raid 1 TB. FCP 5.0.4 (Studio)   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   Sony HVR-Z1E. (Please forgive me if I misread your question).
I should add that after the first reinstall of OS X, I updated to 10.4.6 but after the second I didn't update.
ALSO (if it makes a difference) on both occasions, I reinstated my old library files.
I've done sporadic zapping of PRAMS and repairing of permissions along the way too.
I guess I'll do another clean reinstall without reinstating my library files - but without all those settings, I may well lose the will to live.
Message was edited by: andynick

your welcome,
If you keep a clone of your pristine boot drive on a external drive, kept disconnected and in a safe place. Then if something like this happens you can disconnect the boot drive and option boot from the clone to isolate if it's a hardware or software problem right off.
Then you have the option with the clone to repair/recover or simply erase the original and reverse clone if it is indeed a screwed up boot drive.
(actually it's best to have two clones, each staggered a bit in time/updates just in case you hook up a clone to a infected machine and it too gets owned)
Cloning can only take minutes, and you can out to lunch while the clone is going on. Sure beats trying to find out what's exactly the problem.
Visit the free Carbon Copy Cloner forums for details. Search Apple for DejaVu which is a System Preference pane which combines auto-cloning and auto-backup. Clone once a week and backup daily for instance.
Always Erase w/Zero option all new drives, it checks every bit on the drive and maps off those bad sectors which is a cause of a lot of unusual behaviors.
(no comp as usual)

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