Using system disks from a newer PM G5 to reinstall on an older system

i am cleaning out 2 of my 3 G5 power macs and i can't seem to find the original system disks for them. These machines are 2.5Ghz Powermac G5's that were bought in Oct 2004 and came with OS 10.3
All I can find is the system disks for the new Powermac G5 2.3Ghz that i bought in Jan 2006 and that came with disks for OS 10.4.
Can I use this newer 10.4 system disk to reinstall the OS on the older machines?

It might need something as simple as a PRAM reset on the Quad. When I moved to the incumbent G5, I restored the boot volume from my B&W G3 onto the boot volume I created on the G5 and had no problem booting from the G5, so this is something of a puzzle.
Another thing you can do is boot to the good (existing) Quad volume, use System Profiler to get a list of the loaded kext files, then do the same back in the 1.8 with the drive in question, then compare the two of them and see what might be missing.
One place to look is the difference in video cards though, as that can definitely be a problem. One missing file can stop things in the tracks, like for instance not having NVDANV40Hal.kext
if you have an Nvidia card in an AGP G5.

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