The first part worked with the second chime, but i tryed to select the cd to start up on and i still go the same result the second time. I booted, pushed the required keys, it restarted again, i herd the chime, i let go, it booted into 10.5, i went to system preferences bla bla bla, selected the restart it restarted BUT got the same boot as i described above, saw the mac icon and question mark then it continued to boot to 10.5. i tryed again to no avail. Oh and when you say "Macintosh HD Mac OS X v10.4.11" I do not have a HD with mac 10.4 on it, but i do have a cd. By this do you mean the cd? that could be the problem. Oh and if it helps, the cd is 10.4.2.