ibook G4 usb problem

I did a reset all on it. I reset the pram and the nvram too. I reset it like 4 or 5 times now. Still now doing nothing. It will start to boot up the freeze up. If I try to boot from a usb stick I get a screen with a circle with a slash on it. But the usb stick boots up on my other power Mac. So I don’t know.

It the 12 inch 1.33mhz and running a Mac OS 10.4 with 256mb memory.

I got it boot boot into mac os. It has mac os 10.4.11 on it. The usb ports don't work at all. Do they make a adaptor to plug usb stuff into firewire? The CD-Rom doesn't work. I check it and there part that are bent. So i letting it do a few updates right now. It show it has 512mb or memory in the system profiler. The usb show up in the system profiler. Thanks for the help so far.

I can’t reinstall the os. The cd rom doesn’t work. The usb won’t work. The FireWire works but doesn’t have anything to plug into it. From terminal I did the command to make it run setup again and made an account for me. Well thanks for the help. I may just buy other one off eBay .

It wouldn’t let me upgrade to Mac OS 10.5. It told me I needed to install it from a dvd. Because it needed to format the hard drive. So I am suck with 10.4.11 for now. I was told I can plug my iBook into an other Mac with FireWire and use the other Mac as a target drive or I could install it over the network. Beats me how to do that. Well thanks for the help.

Well found out if I hookup the internal cd rom the computer freeze on boot. So there got to be a problem with a chipset. Well I got my eye on the same one I got and everything works. Just the screen got a line in it. I can just put my screen on it.

This is what system profile shows.

Since this was a school computer. Could the school turn the ports off in the firmware? I was just thinking about that.