IBook G4 Freezes at Startup Window or gives Blank Blue Screen

Ok, so I realize my description is long, but I've been going through these forums gleaning off the wisdom of the past...and so here's what I've tried
Description of Problem:
1. Computer froze, had to be shut down by holding down power button
2. On restart, goes to apple pages with status wheel (looks like turning gear). But then either freezes on that page, or more frequently goes to a blank light blue screen.
3. Tried restarting from install CD, ends in blank light blue screen.
4. Restarted holding option, tried to restart from a firewire clone of the drive, ends in blank light blue screen.
5. DId a reset to firmware, typed in two lines of code as found on discussion board, it restarted, no effect.
TARGET FIREWIRE
Opened computer as target firewire drive
6. used disk utility to repair, there was nothing to repair.
7. Used DiskWarrior to rebuild.
8. Backed up drive using superduper
UNMOUNTED FIREWIRE
9. No change
HELP???? This computer is NOT under AppleCare anymore.

This EXACT thing has just happened to me!
It is a 12 inch ibook G4.
I am hoping it will come back up one more time so that I can transfer it to a Terra server I have here in the lab.
I am wondering what I am going to do...
DNADEB

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I let my son use the laptop for a while and he may have downloaded a whole bunch of jpegs of cartoon art--might that be the source of the problem? I hope I don't have to take it to Apple because it's a Fall 2003 ibook, and I'm sure I'll have to pay $$$. Is it even work repairing in since it's "so old"?
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To eject the disc, start the computer and hold the mouse key down when you hear the start up chime. The install disc should eject.
It sounds like several things may be going on here. Your son may have downloaded so many cartoons that it used up the free space on the hard drive and now there isn't enough. This could very easily happen if you have the 30GB hard drive, as it's really small. Computers will do strange things when the hard drive is too full. So that might be a problem.
The Software Restore disc is for restoring the software after you have done a clean install of the OS. It's not something you want to put into what might be a full computer. So this might have caused some problems.
If you can get the software disc out and boot off the Apple Hardware Test, by all means run it and see if anything shows up in the form of an error code. However, I suspect your problem is not hardware, but software, and that should be possible to fix without costing anything but some time and effort.
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Once your important data has been rescued, the next thing to do would be to insert Install Disc #1 and navigate to Disk Utility. You will see two hard drive icons on the left--choose the one that names the manufacturer and go to "First Aid". Verify and repair if necessary both permissions and the disk. Repeat until both are verified.
Then you can choose to do either an erase and install or an archive and install. If the problem was a too full hard drive and all the data has been saved, you might as well do an erase and install. This option will erase everything that is on the hard drive, so you want to be sure you have saved everything you want.
You probably have the same sort of CD set that I do--3 Install Discs, 1 Apple Hardware Test, and 8 Software Restore discs. If you upgraded to Tiger, you might also have the black retail Tiger disc.
If so, you can reinstall the OS by just using the Tiger disc. If you want to save a little hard drive space, you can do a custom install and remove all the languages and printer drivers you won't need. If you are still running Panther, you can use the three Install discs that came with the iBook.
Once you have restored the OS, you can use the 8 Software Restore discs to reinstall the software that came with the iBook. If you have any other software like a later version of iPhoto, you can install that too.
This will make it like a brand new computer. You will need to set up your internet access and everything just like you did when it was new. And you will have to update all your software. It's definitely a lot of trouble, but it could well fix the problems you are having.
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