IBook frozen at grey apple screen

I've tried zapping the pram, taking out the additional ram I installed a few days ago and also tried booting from Tech Tools, Disc Warrior and OSX boot cd's; the cd stall at the apple logo and then the logo shifts a little to the right and a line of pixels turn a different colour just above the logo. I have tried what I think is eveything. I have migrated the user account to another mac and was going to just install a new hard drive. Would this cure the problem of should i be looking at something else?

Hi Manual - Welcome to Apple Discussions
There is no need to run "fsck" since you ran Disk Utility from start up disks. Also it is safe to run.
Probably you have ruined system files by using Norton's Utilities and will need to reinstall your OSX. Many issues with Norton's are mentioned on these pages.
If you have the individual Jaguar disks, I'd run Archive and Install to see if that would get you up and running and save your personal files: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
1st be sure to follow these Apple articles:
Troubleshooting Startup:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464
Isolating issues:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25392
If you do Archive and Install with your Jaguar disks and it doesn't work you will probably need to restore from your Original System and Software Disks.
If any of this doesn't make sense or if you need help in making a backup just post again to this thread.
iMary

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