Beige g3 begins start up then stalls

Beige G3 with 120gb hard drive, acard aec-6280m, radeon 9200 card maxed out memory USB PCI card G4 zif accelerator. Worked great for 3 or 4 years then I upgraded to a iMacG5 and loaned the Beige to a friend. He had it for a year or so and it quit working. It powers up monitor comes on HD spins then the monitor turns off and it tries again and then the monitor turns off again and the HD still spins but thats the extent of it. I've taken all the cards that I added out put a small 10gb HD in and started it up on the original G3 CD and it works fine. But when I turn it on without the CD it starts up and goes through all the startup motions and looks like it's good to go but the mouse will move the arrow around but it's frozen. One other thing my friend said the sound went out and it doesn't chime when starting up. Any help will be welcomed. I would like to give the computer to a brother-in-law. That is if I can get it to work again.

I removed the 120GB HD and the Acard AEC-6280M controller card and installed a 14 GB HD with OS9 installed. Now when I start up the monitor stays on and the computer freezes after I click on the icon that says the computer was shut down improperly, the mouse will still move the arrow around. It will boot up off the OS CD. Next I decided I had installed OS9 incorrectly so took everything off and installed OS8. Computer seems to run great on OS8 then I installed OS9 and had the same freeze up. Reinstalled OS8 tried to play a CD no sound clicked on the volume and another freeze up. Removed CD burner upgrade and reinstalled original CD player and replaced ATA type cables. Beep actually sounded on startup but sounded kind of sick but CD would not play but did not freeze up. Could be on to something but not sure what. Any help will be appreciated.

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