G4 17" no start-up, only questionmark/broken bin flashing

Please help.
Suddenly my G4 only turns grey and I´ve got a broken bin/questionmark flashing.
By holding Alternative down at start-up, I can´t chose the start-up disk, I only have a bin with circle arrow and a right arrow, not able to click on them/no response.
After several min. it turns back to flashing bin.

rve wrote:
Hi again.
The only thing I get, by holding opt. when boot, is
I can´t click on them, and after a few minutes, it starts flashing with bin and Q.mark again.
Pretty much says it can't find a boot volume anywhere, which is not good if you have the install disc in.  Is the install disk a black retail disk or a grey install/restore that came with the computer?
Have you tried an NVRAM reset?  Hold down cmd-opt-O-F key combination at boot until you get the white open firmware terminal screen.
Type the following three commands
reset-nvram <enter>
set-defaults <enter>
reset-all <enter>
Not that it will help completely but you may be able to boot to the optical drive.

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