Powerbook wont recognise 10.3...I'm stumped

Hi all, I bought a 15"PB G4 1.33Ghz off ebay (ok you take your chances!). It booted in 10.3. I updated to 10.4 but with the combo update it would not boot again. No probs I thought, so I formated the HD to be safe forgetting I only had an upgrade disk of 10.4. No problem again I thought, i'll just reinstall 10.3. I have original disks but now it starts to boot then I get a circle with a diagional bar through it. Never seen that before? Further info, i ran a hardware test which raised a warning about the upper level 512 ram, I removed that for safety so the Pb is running on 128. The problem remains.

Hi locko!
You wrote "I have original disks..."
Are these the discs that were included with the purchase of the PowerBook?
If so, as cornelius posted, are you certain they are the original system install discs for that model PowerBook?
Additional info in these links.
Using OS X Install CDs/DVDs On Multiple Macs
What's A Computer Specific Mac OS X Release
Software Update, Upgrade: What's The Difference?
A Full Retail Version, of the Panther Install CDs, should work though.
Is that what you are using?
ali b

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