Ibook g4 keeps crashing

Hi, I bought my iBook G4 off a friend whos upgraded to a macbook pro a few weeks ago and it was fine, i decided to re-install OS X 10.3 on it to clear everything on it and that was also fine. But within a few days it started freezing and not allowing me to even put it to sleep by closing the lid, the screen would just stay on so i was forced to restart. In the last few days its been happening alot more, sometimes a few minutes into starting up. I unplugged the power cable when it crashed about an hour ago and it hasn't happened since. Is this anything to do with it? Or is it a logic board problem? I've never had kernel panic problems with macs before and im worried ive got a serious problem with this iBook...
Thanks

jemappellefin, Welcome to the discussion area!
This area is for the discussion of the initial iBook G3s. You probably should post in the iBook G4 discussion area.

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