Serious issue with MacBook internet connectivity

I have owned a 2009 MacBook since around 2011, when I bought it new. Since then, I have had several relatively minor issues with it, including common ones with the trackpad malfunctioning (it needed a new battery). Since last night, however, it's ability to connect to the Interwebs has suddenly vanished. It's not like the cause of my problem is a huge mystery; there was another problem involving the apparent 'simulated' holding down of the power button, making it impossible to turn on without force shutting down after a few seconds. This seemed to resolve itself eventually, after I sat up too quickly and it narrowly avoided being badly smashed on my floor when it tumbled off of the futon. Ouch. However, there was a minor bump before I was able to catch it. I worried that it would be broken, but it actually managed to somehow resolve my previous issue with random shutdowns when it turned on. After this, though, I was stymied by it's inability to connect to the Internet at all. I tried WiFi, Ethernet, circumventing the router with another Ethernet cable, and many other possible fixes. No luck. I'm currently typing this on a seperate computer, which has got internet connectivity with wireless on the same network. With the wireless connection, which was working before the power button incident, I am able to see the network and connect, but then I can't actually resolve my connection. In the native internet support program, I am reportedly able to connect to the network and ISP, but not the internet or test server. I have contacted my ISP, and they vaguely insinuated after half an hour on hold that it should be working just fine. Very oddly and suspiciously, whenever I try to open the normal network control panel in System Preferences, the pane blinks briefly and stops responding, to the point that I left it loading and went to bed. This morning, it was still attempting to load that preference pane, and I'm really pretty confused. What is going on? In case it helps, the corner that hit the floor was the upper right hand one, I have to think that it may be a hardware issue, since I've spent quite a bit of time on software fixes. This is my first question to the community so far, so if I've misplaced it or doen something wrong, I apologize.
Thank you in advance!

I have a MacBook Pro that I purchased in April 2007 and am having exactly this issue. I went to start up a program, my screen went black and the computer crashed. I rebooted and my screen had the diagonal lines as in your image. I believe it booted up properly once or twice but crashed again before long. Repeatedly now, the ugly lines are there, the boot up screen shows up in the background and eventually it gets to a blank blue screen and nothing else happens. Sometimes it just shuts down. I did get the install disk and try the hardware test by booting up the disk and holding down the "d" key. The first time I did this it kind of made the screen clear up and reported that there were no hardware problems. I restarted from there and actually had my computer back for about 15 minutes. Then it died again The hardware test didn't have the same impact the second time I tried it but still reported no problems. Still stalling at the blue screen. Does it have something to do with Leopard 10.5.8?? I updated to that a couple of weeks ago. Seems kind of random and inexplicable. Oh and I actually saw a wee puff of smoke at one point near the power button. Is something frying? I really would like to figure it out so A) I can rescue all my stuff that's on that machine and B) if I can fix the problem the computer will still be of use.

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So, it seems my issue with the Limited Internet connection has been resolved. I didn't use my computer for two days and this afternoon when I turned it on I was still having issues. However, I went into the HP Support Assistant and it popped up that I had some updates to download and install, so I let it do its thing. It took a while because the Internet kept cutting out, but once the update for the Intel Wireless finally installed, my connection has STAYED CONNECTED. Finally!
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