Mac Classic Freeze after boot

Hi everyone
I got a free Macintosh Classic recently. It comes with System 7.5.3 in a Color Classic HD (Should be from CC). I booted the Mac and it played the Boot Chime. But right before the Boot Chime, it has some noise and also during it boot, a bit like the sound that we trash a file in Mac OS X. When it finish booting, it halt in a few second or minute. Then I power off the Mac by switching the power button at the back of the machine and restart it. This time it showed a Chess board screen and halted. This repeated for two or three times and I have to idle the Mac for a couple of minutes before restarting it.
I tried to boot without extension or boot with ROM by holding Command-Option-X-O and it still halt after a few minute or second.
Sometimes it wasn't crashed and I can use my mouse again after I re-plug the keyboard and mouse. What should I do to rescue this little Mac?
Thanks Everyone
iMac G4/700, iMac DV/400, iBook SE/366, PB 100*2, PB 520, PM6100/60AV,   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   iPod 2G(20GB), Newton MessagePad 110(1.2), Classic

Interrupt button/Error Codes
http://www.stjohns.k12.fl.us/depts/itd/happyerror.html
Quoted from there:
"Sad Mac Error Codes Description
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When the interrupt button is pressed on the side of your Macintosh when starting up, you should
get a sad Mac icon with '0F000D' and some bitscycling under the icon indicating it is performing a memory test"
StartupKeyCombinations
http://macfaq.org/software/startup.shtml
http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/suzanne/startup.ht
My PM7600 shows same sympton(mouse not usable for some time) while loading the full system and building up network connections. I have to wait until all is finished(no multitasking?).My XP-PC doesn't react on the mouse-clicking while loading system components from time to time.
Clock: My old Classic(and none of the old Macs) never had that Y2k bug.You can easily change the date to 2006.
IF date/time isn't correct after a short period of disconnecting the powercord the backup battery is gone-mine has still the first battery!
Can HD crash the whole machine? If the HD contains a faulty system this will lead to a crash(bomb appears,for instance). You often can repair the system using DiskToolsDisks or installing a complete new system.

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