Please help!! G4 problems slowly driving me insane..

Hi!
I'm having a bit of a nightmare with trying to install Panther on my mac... any help would be MUCH appreciated...i just dont know what else i can do!!
This is my system:
G4 "Digital Audio" mac, with sonnet encore Duet dual 1.8ghz cpu upgrade (was originally dual 533mhz)
1.25g ram
80gig hard drive (partitioned into 1@50g and 1@30g) - to run OS + programs only
+120gig to store files.
radeon 7000 video card
NEC dvd burner
Here's the story:
Basically, i own a Digidesign 001 Protools audio interface, but Digidesign decided that the 001 is not compatible with Tiger - 10.3.7 is the last "supported" version of OSX for the card.
So last year i had the mac running dual boot OS - Tiger on one partition, and Panther on the other. Since then, i have upgraded the processors (see above) and had to replace the main hard drive.
Problem is, i can now no longer boot from any panther/jaguar install discs, thus cannot install them on my system. (and cannot use protools)
When i try and boot from any of these discs (either by holding down "c" when booting, using the option key to select where to boot from during startup, or selecting startup disc as being OSX install cd from Startup Disc in system preferences, one of two things happens - either i get the grey screen with the "no entry" sign, or the apple startup logo shifts up and to the right slightly and some random pixels appear to the right of the logo, then nothing more happens.
The problem does not appear to be the DVD drive, as i can still boot from and install Tiger from both CD and DVD with no problems.
So here's what i've tried to rectify the problem:
-Using different Panther/Jaguar discs (ones that came with the machine(jaguar) and many different panther discs borrowed from friends.)
-Various different ways of forcing the machine to boot from disc.
-Disconnecting all peripherals (studio display, second hard drive, 2 out of 3 ram chips) leaving just one Hd, the keyboard/mouse & old crt monitor attached (as ive heard there have been issues with studio displays and booting)
-Using the computer in target disc mode and attempting to install os from another compu
-Detaching both hard drives and trying to boot from disc
-Inserting the hard drive into another G4 compu, installing Panther (no booting problems, and runs fine on this g4-so not a hard drive issue) and then putting the drive back into my mac
-another method involving manually installing the os by copying certain install package contents onto blank partition (cant remember the exact method... but it looked like it had installed but still wouldnt boot.)
-zapping pram on various occasions
-shouting loudly at the machine
All of this acheived nothing - i am still left with a computer that refuses to see anything but Tiger (even after formatting the drive many times) and a ProTools box which cost me quite a bit a few years ago, that cannot run on the program it was designed for.
This is actually driving me a bit insane... ive trawled the internet for months and found noone with similar problems... and i dont know what else i can possibly do!
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated...
Look forward to hearing from you!!
-Suzie x

Hi
I wonder whether the problem is related to the Sonnet CPU upgrade. According to their website it's supported by Mac OS X 10.3.5 and higher. It may be that Apple added support for the 7447 G4 variants used in the CPU upgrade in 10.3.5, and earlier versions of Panther simply won't recognise the processors.
If this is the case, I'm not sure what to suggest other than to reinstall the original CPU card, reinstall the OS and upgrade it to 10.3.5 or later via the web and then reinstall the CPU upgrade. Alternatively you could try and get hold of some Panther discs that you knew were 10.3.5 or later.
With Protools and the CPU upgrade, it seems you may be limited to 10.3.5, 10.3.6 or 10.3.7
Did you try updating Panther to 10.3.7 with the hard drive in the other machine before swapping it back?
Message was edited by: Rodney Culling

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