Perhaps same display problem...

my wife was complaining lastnight that her ibook was locking up and doing "wierd screen things", so i let her use my powerbook adn went back to sleep. this morning, i was looking at her ibook, and here's what i found. after a minute or two after booting up, the screen will flicker from display to black and back, or jsut get lots of horizontal lines on it, either way, the ibook locks up. i can close the lid and it won't go to sleep, and the mouse is frozen (won't move), it also won't accept any keyboard input. it does with with or without moving the display (though it happens faster if you rock the display back and forth). i can hold the power button in turn it off, and it'll boot right back up, but do the same thing over again. this sound like the "cable broken in the higne" problem, or is it something else. i jusr got this one for her when the video chip in her g3 500 started wigging out and the "shim fix" didn't help anymore. this unit is a g3 800, just for the record.
ALpb 12" 867, iBook G3 500, iBook G3 800, Blue and White 400   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

It is showing the classic symptoms of the logic board problem:
http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/
Back to the shim fix?
[Y]ou can often fix this yourself by removing the iBook's bottom housing, and placing a shim of any sort, about 1mm to 1.5mm thick, onto the raised square on the bottom shield. I use a Scotch mounting square--you can get them in hardware stores and many grocery stores. When you reinstall the bottom case, it will press against this shim, which will press against the graphics chip, and may allow the chip to come into better contact with the logic board.
John Sawyer
CJS Macintosh Repair
Instructions for removing the lower case:
iFixit.com

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    Respected to whom so ever is concern,
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    Hello @Ronny123  welcome to the HP Forums.
    I see that you're having a display problem, that you've spoken to support and they were having you update the drivers. I will try to assist you with this.
    The steps that you were provided are on the correct path, as you ran into an issue with this. Please trying installing the following drivers while in Safe Mode.
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    Thank you for posting on the HP Forums.
    I worked on behalf of HP.

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