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For Christmas, my dad got 512 MB of SDRAM and Panther for his PowerMac G4. Everything worked fine after he installed the RAM, but when he upgraded to Panther, problems started to appear like mad... even after the updates. However, it is important to note that (as most of you know) that you aren't supposed to do a Mac OS X upgrade thingy with a SCSI card and device installed and attached. My dad didn't feel like taking it out the first time he installed Panther, so he just installed Panther with the SCSI card in the computer. I was surprised that everything installed fine, but it seemed like there were massive problems with the computer's speed. with 1 GB of RAM and 733Mhz G4 processor, I thought it would run about the same as my PowerBook G4 with 640 RAM and an 867Mhz G4 processor... but it didn't. It wasn't even close in fact. I thought that extremely odd and began to speculate what the issue could be. I thought it was probably the SCSI card thing, so we reinstalled Panther without the SCSI card and things were running quicker, like they should, but then everything would unexpectedly quit like you wouldn't believe. Even the Finder couldn't stay active, which means hard booting the computer... I thought maybe the quitting problem was something with the RAM, so I took out the new 512MB RAM chip and started the computer up again. Same problem. I couldn't even get to the internet to type this post. I thought maybe it was just his user, so I switched to another user and everything works fine without a hitch. Any suggestions? Any help here would be great.... Thanks

-KW