IBook G4 Late 2004 Keeps Freezing!

Help!
I have a iBook G4 and its just started to freeze all the time. I can use it and everything, its just whenever i move it. The only thing i can do is move the mouse?!?! Help?!?!
Thanks!

Hi Wolfder and welcome to Apple Discussions, Your computer is fine until you move it, right? When it freezes, does it ever come back or do you have to turn it off?
No offense, are you new to Mac's? Have you repaired permissions and how much disk space is available?
From your short description, my first guess would be that the Hard Drive acuator is moving when the computer is disturbed which abruptly changes the location of the heads that read the data..for example, your working in a word.doc then all of a sudden your head is reading a video file. The computer doesn't know what to do so it starts thinking....freezes...Your drive would have to be replaced.
But before you go there, let's make darn sure thats what it is.
IN THE MEAN TIME: If you have a backup external FW drive, clone your system.
or just backup everything that you want in case the drive goes bye-bye.
Cheers,
Glynn

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Cathy B. wrote:
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However my mac is out of warranty and if it is a hardware problem there are no solutions for me (logic board change costs $1.000 or so).
After reinstalling 10.9, if I'll not resolve, I want to try to change thermal grease for GPU and CPU...

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