Considering my iBook is no longer covered by Apple's tech support, I figured I'd pitch this problem here to see if anyone has any ideas as to what might be causing it. A few days ago, after a kernel panic caused by a third party device, I restarted my computer as normal, and after a few minutes, white static lines shot across my screen, and froze my applications. The cursor still moved, until the same thing happened, and everything stopped completely.
Thinking this was just some anomaly, I restarted, and everything was working fine, until the exact same thing happened a few minutes later. I turned the computer off, reset pram and such, logged back in, and the same thing happened. It started to seem as though holding the computer in my lap was jarring something, so I set it on a sturdy table, after which it froze again. I tried walking on eggshells as regards moving the computer in any way, but this did little good, as it continued to crash. I reset the PMU, and it continued to do the same thing.
Frustrated, I backed up my documents and iTunes library, and did a clean install of 10.4. It froze during the archiving of my old system (thus cleaning my harddrive), and I installed to a blank disk. It froze in the same way during registration, without being moved. I've finally managed to get everything set up once again, but it still continues to have difficulty not crashing for periods of more than 30 minutes. I can only get the display to actually start up 1 out of 10 attempts, but OSX starts normally, as I've more or less memorized what the computer sounds like as it's starting up.
Any ideas here would be appreciated. Any malicious or dangerous program would have been liquidated by my clean install, but the crash is still occuring. I'm more or less certain that it's a hardware failure, but I wanted to get a second opinion before I drop money on a diagnostic that may or may not get anything done.
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