Startup woes with G4

I've been having problems with my 500mhz. Dual processor G4. Right now it's running OS 9.2.2. The only peripheral hooked up to it is an 80gig external fire wire/USB 2.0 hard drive for backup. It requires no driver to make it work. I've never had a problem with this drive in the 2 years I've owned it. It's connected to the G4 with a firewire cable. Lately when I startup the computer I get a blank grey screen. I restart and I get the same thing. Then I startup while zapping the PRAM and I can get it up and running. But then sometimes the computer crashes, or a simple app like Acrobat reader 5.0 won't open and the only way to make it work is to restart the computer. I've tried shutting the computer down and disconnecting the drive but I still have problems starting up. In short, very problematic startups.
This also happened with the other 40gig internal drive. The computer all of a sudden told me the drive was not recognized and had to be re-intialized. I was eventually forced to do this after attempts to repair the drive were unsuccesful.
So it seems the computer is having problems both booting up from and recognizing drives. I installed a new battery but I'm still having problems this morning. I'm getting tired of PRAM zapping. Help.
500mhz. Dual processor (revision B) dual boot Mac OS 9.2.x 768 mgs. RAM

Hi
I'm not sure from your post whether you just have problems booting and running applications off an internal drive, or whether you've also tried booting off the external drive as well and had the same problems.
If it's always an internal drive perhaps there's a problem with the ATA ribbon cable or ATA controller on the logic board. I guess you could try replacing the ribbon cable. Presumably it's seated correctly both ends and hasn't been pinched or damaged at all? It seems like a long shot, but I guess it is the PRAM reset that temporarily fixes the problem rather than the fact you've opened and closed the case, which will have caused the ribbon cable to flex and move slightly? With the case open, can you cause similar problems by applying some finger pressure to the cable? Failing that I guess you could try by-passing the onboard ATA controller by using an ATA or SATA PCI card. In general SATA cards seem cheaper than ATA ones now and you'd also be able to take advantage of faster, higher capacity drives.

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