i got a 500 mhz ibook here which i orginally intented to buy to swap the logic board out and put it in my 800 mhz

but i am having second thoughts now the 800 mhz is working just fine with a shim

and i am looking in to the posibilites of getting this 500 mhz working again

it does not have an hd its combo drive is wonky

but it wil boot of cd's off my external dvd writer

thats where it stops though

os 9.1 gets to the desktop which si empty and nothing else happens

jaguar crashes on the apple logo screen

panther kernel panics

and i didnt even try tiger

am i correct in assuming the problem lies in the lac of an hd or is it a bigger problem ?

if it is should i even bother to wrench a hd in it or swap the logic board out ?