Restoring my G5 with leopard?

Hello. My G5 has been running terribly lately and I think I would like to restore it back to factory settings (for the THIRD time in 4 years). The computer came with 10.2 or 10.3, I can't remember which, but I installed leopard on it about 6 months ago. It seems as though ever since I installed leopard, it lags all the time and it's constantly "thinking." Is it possible that my G5 simply can't handle the operating system because it is so much more complex? Should I be using the original disc that came with my system to do the restore? Or should I be using the leopard disc? Or is there something else I should do all together (without having to purchase a new computer)? Please advise. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

I have Leopard Server installed on a G5 with the same specs as yours (only difference is the RAM - I have 3,5 GBs) and I don't notice any significant speed problem (of course it's slower than my MacPro, but that's obvious...). Your speed problems may be due to several things:
1- How much free disk space do you have? Leopard just loves lots of disk space for its virtual memory (49GB on my MacPro, 79 GB on my G5).
2- If you open Activity Monitor, do you see many pages out or swaps? If you have many pages out and swaps you have a memory problem (i.e, you need to get more...).
3- Have you ran Disk Utility to check the startup disk? There may be some small problems with the disk that are preventing a normal usage.
4- Have you been cleaning the system logs?

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aRKay wrote:
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thetrudz wrote:
A computer friend can install a hard drive just fine for me. However, I do not have the Leopard install disc.
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