This one is stumping me. A friend's PowerBook would not boot, kept crashing on spinning "sundail" so my friend told me to format it and install a new system on it. I did.

Nothing. It goes to boot as if it were trying to boot but then dies at a blue screen at the end of the boot process before desktop. I googled about and most posts I found is that it's a hard drive problem. But it will boot in Safe Mode, but not in Normal Mode. I tried to reinstall the system several times, including zeroing out the hard drive with a format in Disk Utilities. Still nothing.

This one has me stumped.