IBook G4 suddenly freezes, does not go beyond blue screen

My iBook G4, recently upgraded to 10.5.2, suddenly went into a freeze, where neither the mouse nor nothing else would move anymore. I had to shut down by pressing the power button. When starting anew, I did not get past the blue screen. Same problem when trying to start in Safe Mode. I managed to get past the blue screen twice, with long intervals in between start-ups (ie. starting from cool), but the machine immediately froze up again in the first 10 seconds. Since the machine had the same problems two years ago, I am suspecting the Logic Board (yet again), although the Board was exchanged by the Mac Service in 2006. I backed up all the data in Transfer Mode without problem, so the HD seems to be unaffected. I cannot start the iBook from the disc so cannot run TechTool or Disk Utility. Please help.

Thanks - none of these problems seem to refer to my own blue screen problem, which did not occur just after updating to 10.5 or 10.5.2 - I had the software running without problems for weeks now. So it must be something new coming up. I ran a hardware test on the machine, and no logic board or hard disk problem was found. So it seems to be something else. Without being able to start on the installation disk, I can't even do an archive and install.

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