2008 MBP 5,1 hangs up with no response from kb/tp/mouse, 2008 MBP 5,1 hangs up with no response from kb/tp/mouse

My late 2008 MBP 5,1 is hanging up with no response to the keyboard/mouse/trackpad & hence no diagnostics that I know of.  I did see my wife's userid running Safari have the screen go berserk with random moving black & white "snow" before the whole display became unreadable.   Reboot & everything appears normal at this time but the hang-ups are constant.   I am running OS X 10.10.
Any suggestions/help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance...billgr0248

I don't know where the comments about the phone & all came from...I am running OS X 10.10.

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