Imac G5 pre-isight keeps locking up and going to a blue screen

Hi there,
I've been asked to look at a friends fathers imac. It's a G5 model and doesn't have the isight camera. Just recently it's started to go slow so they put in 2Gb of ram and a new hard drive. Next thing when using Entourage the machine would lockup. This was then followed by the screen going a dark blue colour.
It has since gone to the blue screen daily and needs to be turned off and back on. It seems to happen mainly when using Entourage to view emails.
I'm really scratching my head with this, does anyone know of this happening and is there a resolution?

Try having them reset the SMU and then the PRAM.
Have them boot from their install disc and use Disk Utility:
Start from your Mac OS X Install disc: Insert the installation disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
Click the First Aid tab.
Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
Select your Mac OS X volume.
Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk.
Let us know how they make out,

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