Tiger Won't Install On G4 4 450 AGP

Removed all extra PCI cards and RAM to the stock machine and 10.4 still won't install.
It starts the set up and then when it gets to chosing the hard drive it locks up and won't install.
Any solutions are appreciated.
Thanks

On my fourth try, I got Tiger to install on my G4 AGP 350.
Here's what I did, following advice from these forums and from Apple Support:
Ensure Tiger is only installing to one unpartioned volume.
(I re-initialized my second internal hard drive to be unpartioned.)
Run DiskWarrior on that volume.
Unplug all peripherals except keyboard and mouse. No Firewire or USB or SCSI devices were plugged in during installation of Tiger.
Remove all PCI cards I added myself (a SCSI card).
I left all the RAM in place, even though it was largely added by me and not factory original.
Restart with the install DVD in the internal DVD drive while holding down the "c" key on the keyboard.
Select "Basic Install" (apart from selecting the volume, don't do any custom installing, let all the printer drivers etc be installed--Apple said I could delete them later).
A little over an hour later, the monitor was dark and the green power light was pulsing... OS X was working!
OS X asked about my keyboard (it's a marvellous Macally full-size keyboard--the power button still shuts down OS X Tiger) and then completed its install.
I installed a security update and maybe (since it was mentioned elsewhere in these forums) that update removed some desktop icons in my OS 9.2.2 volume (most of the icons had disappeared when I rebooted into 9.2.2 from the other internal hard drive, using Control Panel--Startup Disk).
In Tiger, I proceeded to customize the Dock, run Dashboard, run Safari, run Slideshow, run Quicktime Player 7, run Preview, and do things I normally need to go into Photoshop to do (create custom icons for things that I've put in the Dock).
So thanks to all the wise elders who helped me!

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