Installer doesn't recognize Giga CPU accelerator

Hello,
I'm hoping someone in the Mac community can help me out here, because I've done a ton of on-line info searching to no avail.
I am trying to install v10.5 on my old G4. A few years ago I bought a CPU accelerator, which runs at 1.8 GHz. So I actually meet the minimum system requirements for CPU speed. But when I boot up from the installation CD, it tells me I don't meet the requirements.
I believe the other requirements are fine. I have 640 MB of RAM, more than the required 512. I have loads of disk space, more than the 9-12 GB recommended. So I don't see what else could be the problem, other than the installer is somehow not recognizing the CPU accelerator.
Has anyone else run into this problem, and figured out how to fix it? I'd rather not have to go the "hack the disk image" route.

Welcome to Apple Discussions:
Not all CPU accelerators are recognized by Leopard. Leopard only sees the original CPU and speed. We found this out last year when Leopard came out. Some accelerators have Leopard updates, others did/do not.
If you cannot update your accelerator you might try installing Leopard via target disk mode from a second computer, PPC of course, that does meet the specs. No guarantee that after all that the system will run or if it does run it may run at original speed.
Also even 640MB RAM is a bit low for running Leopard on a G4. Best to max it out. And here again, we discovered that Leopard is very fussy about RAM. It tests and requires the RAM to meet or exceed all the Apple specs. No skimping here or there. Just because Tiger runs on the RAM does not mean Leopard will.

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