My Mac ibook G4 always get stuck

Hi people
I have an ibook G4 laptop, There was no problems. To tell you guy's the truth i formated it. But i tryed to format it lots of times. But after a while it get stuck.. Even the reinstalling the osx. But Some how i installed the OSX. But now i can't go inside. Always it get stuck. Some times i can go inside & then it get stuck after a while. But sometime for the beginning it's stuck. Plz help me. why is this happing. Plz help me

Welcome back to Apple Discussions!
We are very glad that you posted a new topic!
It sounds like you reinstalled the OS and are still having problems with the iBook freezing up. Is this correct? Could you elaborate on how you formatted it? The usual choice is "Mac OSX Extended (Journaled)". The other choice is "UNIX File System" which is probably not what you want unless you have special reasons for having it.
Can you boot off of your install disc? If so, navigate to Disk Utility and verify and repair if necessary both permissions and the disk. Repair until all problems are gone. If you cannot repair the disk, please post back.
It may be that the freezing that you are experiencing is actually hardware related rather than software related. If you had trouble installing the OS and it took a very long time to do it, you might have logic board problems. Some of these problems are caused by a failure of the ball grid array that holds the chips to the logic board. This is a failure of the solder joints. However, many people have had a lot of success at fixing this problem by making and installing some home made shims which make the chips have better contact to the board. If you think this may be your problem, we can post some links to instructions on how to do this.
Please post back with a little more detail on how the OS installation went and how long it took. Then we will know better how to advise you.
Good luck!

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