Entirely Unresponsive on Startup

Question

Hi-
My Powerbook has been out of commission for about 6 months now, conveniently dying right as I bought a new Mac Pro, but I've finally worked up the motivation to try and fix it. Here's the problem: I hit the power button, and I get the startup chime... but the hard disk doesn't spin, and the Superdrive gives a feeble little effort before shutting off too. The screen remains blank, none of the lights work (caps lock, keyboard ambient lighting), and the only way to reset it to try again is take out the battery and unplug it.
I've tried using target disk mode onto the Mac Pro, but the same thing happens... black screen, no response from the keyboard. I've also considering booting from the startup disks, but there's some CD in the drive already, and nothing I've tried will get it out. Force ejecting with the keyboard or mouse doesn't work, the comp won't go into open firmware... and after fishing around with a paper clip for five minutes I couldn't find the manual eject button in the drive.
The computer is out of warrantee, the nearest Apple store is 6 hours away, and I don't really have faith in the local computer repair stores... so I turn to you guys. Two questions, pretty much: Any suggestions on getting this computer up and running? And if not, is there any way to just open up the computer and manually hook the hard disk to my Mac Pro to extract the files I want, or are they not compatible? To be honest, all I really want is my old stuff... getting the Powerbook to work would just be icing on the cake.
-piglicker

Answer 1

I actually ended up breaking down and taking the computer to one of the certified local service stores, and had a very pleasant experience with the staff there. My problems appears to be a bad logic board or a bad hard drive.