Distorted display (pattern) computer freezes

My IMAC G5 with ISight has been down since July. While using it it locked up. After powering it down and restarting it was showing a Kernel Panic error. I took it in for repair, they told me they had changed the logic board and the screen(not sure why the screen...) After bringing it it back home, after power up, the screen went distorted, showing a pattern, this while still on the gray screen. After several trials Powering down and back up, I got it to start up. It worked fine until it went to sleep, and I had to go thru the same process to get it back up and running. I've sent it back three times now, each time I'm being told the problem is the logic board. So far, the tech tells me he has swapped 6 boards.
Needless to say I'm totally disappointed in Apples' service and more than likely I'll be going back to a good old MS Windows system, but for the time being, does anyone have a clue of what may be happening?

My wife and I are having a similar problem with our iMac (no iSight) purchased in late '04. It only started recently and we've not taken it to anyone for repair. Almost out of the blue it started freezing up, usually with the distorted zig-zag pattern that requires hard reboot (no error message). So far we've not recognized a pattern as to why/when it freezes (not running a certain application, for instance), but I can promise it'll freeze when used.
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