Major hardware crash -- cause/fix?

Hi, this is sent via PC since my faithful B & W has majorly crashed. I rarely use the PC, the Mac is #1.
OS: X.3.9
Mac: unchanged gen 2 B&W 400 MHz.
Monitor: new Sceptre 19" widescreen, ~1200x900, 60 Hz.
Description: Mac boots in verbose mode. The apple & grey background briefly appear (as always) then the BSD bootscript scrolls by.
-This time, the background stays partly in place(instead of disappearing normally), broken in large rectangular chunks.
-Boot freezes at the point after the kernel version appears ("Darwin kernel version 7.0.0"); next line is " wed sep 24 15:48:39 PDT 2003 [I presume the odd date/time is burned into the instruction set & is unrelated]; root:xnu/xnu-517.obj~1 release_PPC "
-The cursor instantly puts itself a few lines down but this doesn't matter since the B&W now only can be unplugged, it is completely frozen.
-this behavior occurs with only the CD connected, even if the hard drive is disconnected. So I think it's a hardware problem, not the hard drive itself or corrupt OS. (& I repaired disk permissions yesterday, booting from the panther CD).
-Yesterday, the mac seemed to have trouble accessing the hard drive, I could hear something spinning & spinning,the blue spinning wheel appeared & stuck there, I had to reboot. So I repaired permissions as stated, and turned off screen saving, and this seemed to fix the problem till this a.m.
-Is this a damaged NVRAM (or wherever the boot instructions come from)? Can this be simply desoldered/replaced if so?
-has anyone seen this problem & its likely cause, & if fixable?
Thank you.

If it boots successfully from a panther CD and allows you to run Disk utility and repair Disk and repair permissions, all without crashing, you have isolated the problem to your Hard Drive. If Disk Utility did not make substantial repairs, it sound like the software image on your hard drive has been damaged, and may need to be re-installed.

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