Display freezes

Out of nowhere today, the display on my G5 froze. My mouse works, but I'm unable to click on anything (and hovering over the dock doesn't do anything, either). I tried to restart but the same thing happens. I've also hooked it up to an external display and that freezes as well.
At the moment there are a few pixels on the display that are the wrong color; this is generally my indication that everything has frozen. But I can still move the mouse... I don't understand.
I was playing around with the external display for the first time today. Would this connection have anything to do with it? I haven't had any problem prior.

Same problems here too. I ran DU and DiskWarrior - each had errors, but it appeared they were fixed. Ran the Hardware Tester CD but it did not find anything. Restarted and all was well with another Repair Permissions with DU. Put it to sleep last night and woke to the same frozen blue screen and/or horizontal discolored lines. At other times it appears that the refresh is not working (black boxes where browser windows are). I haven't put in new memory for about 2 years ago. My bluetooth keyboard also keeps slipping in and out of contact with the G5 iMac. Switched to a USB keyboard and still had same issues. I just tried to reinstall the OS, but got an error when reading the disk. The fan also starts running very loudly with a CD in the drive. Could there be something there with the more recent OS updates? Firmware?

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I got a new Nokia 5310 last week and its doing great and i like it a lot, except for the following problem..
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I find the phone display freezed and become grey and stopped responding to any keys..
this happened first time (on day two) with low battery and then started observing it frequently now (once in two days), when the phone is left with screen saver..,
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I have the Problem, that everytime I watch a film in fullscreen sometimes my Display freezes (Sound continues). When I move the mouse, the film continues.
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I have a K7T Turbo ver.3 mobo MSI 6330 Lite which is run off a 250W PSU. (1.3 AMD / 512sd ram)
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