B/W G3 Tower & G4 iMac Issue

Hello All,
I have a bit of a problem with a G3 tower that was donated to my shop the other day (I am the manager of a charity shop in London).
The tower will switch on and the hard drive whirrs but the monitor comes up with the ?/Mac flashing folder (which I assume means it can't boot from the HDD).
I know next to nothing about computers (which is why I have a Mac) but I've been given the task of bringing this beastie back to life as everyone else at work is a confirmed Windows user.
Now, because I have a G4 iMac at home I've taken the base unit of the G3 back to my house along with an Ethernet Crossover Cable.
My idea was to look into the mind of the G3 through my G4 iMac (which has an integrated monitor). I don't have any other monitors at home so I'm not quite sure what to do next.
Both Machines are on and I'm wondering how (or even if) I can view the G3 using the monitor or my G4.
Niävely I assumed that just plugging them together would make something magical happen. I guess even Apple haven't managed to cater for my complete lack of knowledge.
Could anyone offer any advice?
I have a copy of OS 8 and OS 9 in my bag and I'm trying to install one of them on the G3.
All help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Matt.

"(I am the manager of a charity shop in London)."
" I don't have any other monitors at home so I'm not quite sure what to do next.
See if someone will donate a monitor. 17" monitors are being sold here for $1.oo. If it is a PC monitor, you can find adapters.
"My idea was to look into the mind of the G3 through my G4 iMac (which has an integrated monitor)."
That would require much more work than you want to tackle.
"The tower will switch on and the hard drive whirrs but the monitor comes up with the ?/Mac flashing folder (which I assume means it can't boot from the HDD)."
Do you know some one with an install CD? The G3 probably will not boot from the iMac install CD but it is worth a try. If you can find a startup CD, it will let you check and see if the hard drive is OK and just needs a new system folder.
I have a copy of OS 8 and OS 9 in my bag and I'm trying to install one of them on the G3.
Is that a bag of tricks? : )
If you have an external hard drive or a zip drive, that will plug into the back of someone else's older Mac and let you copy a system folder over to an external drive long enough to get you going. I would partition the drive so you can have an emergency back up of your system folder. If the system folder on one partition dies, the Mac will automatically boot from the second partition. It is a Mac. Take advantage of the benefits of auto detecting system folders.
Ji˜m

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In January 2008 I bought a 24" iMac G5 with iSight with the intention of using for university work. Since purchasing it I found that the Mac OS and software on it is so good that I replaced all of my Windows based devices with Apple products, this includes a Macbook, G5, time capsule and iPhone. The ease of use of your products, coupled with their quality and style has led me to recommend them to friends and colleagues, many of whom have gone on to purchase various devices.
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I hope this helps ...

IMac issues since upgrade

I used to run my iMac using 10.6.3 fine, never had any issues. Then one day my brother came over with a gift of 10.8. Well since Installing that right off the bat I had issues with mail, mainly with an e-mail account from my work. I just decided to not use mail any more since I did most of my e-mail with my iphone any way. After that we updated to 10.8.2, and that's where it seems like all **** broke loose. I constantly get the spinning beach ball all the time. and programs were freezing up. I could click different programs and move the cursor, but the beach ball wouldn't go away and I would have to force restart. I have run disk utility multiple times, both while logged in, and by holding down command r on boot up. I have also run fsck, and reset PRAM. After all of this I decided to wipe the computer and do it over again, unfortunally losing quite a bit since it would freeze every time I tried to use timecapsule to back up.
So I have reinstalled 10.6.3, which went smooth. I updated again to 10.8 and that was fairly smooth. I did find music on my external drive that was corrupt, so I have deleted that thinking that might be causing some issues. Well 2 games I like to play are Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2. Both of these games kept saying that for best performance, to upgrade to 10.8.2, and Starcraft 2 seemed to be locking up a lot on login and when loading a game. So I decided to attempt 10.8.2 again. Most everything had been going smooth although I noticed it didn't fix Starcraft 2 at all, so I might just try and reinstall that, but on top of that, the beachball seems to be coming back again and it takes forever to login to the computer and takes longer to boot up than it used to.
Should I again, wipe the computer and try staying with 10.8? or does this sound like some kind of issue that may be resolved some other way? (without having to buy a new computer as my wife keeps saying we should, as she's conviced the computers dying).
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

I only had one thing to disconnect, which was my external drive. I did notice that the computer boots up a bit faster, but it still has the same issues once up and running.
I was thinking this morning tho and think I might have figured out my issue.
Does anyone know if dust/powders getting inside the computer could cause this? I ask this because around the same time we started to have issues was when we used a powder substance in the house on the rugs to deal with fleas, and I know it does kick up a bit when moving around and we were treating the house for a while. Also if this is the cause, is there a safe way to clean out an iMac? Is it easy to open and clean?
Either way I am looking at probably upgrading to a new iMac with tax money, but I would probably be cleaning this one up, wiping it and putting factory settings on it to give my parents to replace the eMac I gave them years ago when I got this iMac. Also on that note, any tips or advice on whether I should get a regular ATA drive or fusion? That's the only thing I'm not sure about yet.
Hoping the dust is my issue and can resolve it this weekend if there's a way to open it up and clean it.

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