How to restore OS X on Power Mac G4?

A few days ago I installed OS X Tiger, and it booted fine a few times, aside from telling me I need to restart time after time. But it got to a point where it wouldn't load the HDD or a restore disc. So, I completely cleared the hard drive, and I can install and run OS 9.2.1 fine, but when I try to install Panther it either gives me a screen full of kernel errors, tells me I need to restart mid-installation, or more recently gives me a circle with slash through the middle image. What's wrong with my computer?
Computer specs: First generation Power Mac G4 (Yikes!) with 705 mB RAM, 80 gB HDD, 350 mHZ single core standard processor, and standard ATI Rage 128.
-Alex

Bad RAM, or slightly incompatible RAM, ie. PC-100 instead of PC-133, maybe only on one of the sticks.
If you can still boot into OS9, do so and open the Apple System Profiler and report on the RAM. Is it all the same speed, are the sizes what you expect ? when I've had RAM go bad, a bad stick would show up as half-capacity, ie. 256MB instead of the 512MB I know it was, next time the slot wouls show up as empty.
Are there any PCI cards inserted ? like a USB v2 card or similar.

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