malcarne 0 Newbie Poster

so this powerbook g4 1ghz starts by getting to the grey screen and the apple icon then that dark grey box with the hold the button to restart message the one with a few different langauges so i hold the button and it just keeps doing it i managed to get off my info by starting it as a firewire disk(com T) so i think the HD is ok ? tried to boot of the system cd
which it did and managed to install a new system but it just goes back to its looping nightmare why ?" it is driving me mad

please help
many thanks
mal

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