Have someone's powermac g4 and don't know what to do. stuck at screen.

Hello. Recently a co-worked of mine gave his Apple powermac g4 to look at. So i said ok, and now I have a Mac from 2001 and no idea what to do with it. The powermac g4 turns on, and i get something on the screen, which is only a finder flashing with a question mark. Like this: finder/question mark/finder/question mark and so on. I have never been on a Mac operating system older than tiger( 10.4 I think). Not sure if this is a simple fix. Is it software related, hardware related? Do i need to reinstall the operating system ,because that is going to be hard because it's a powermac g4(non-intel) and I don't know where you would find older versions on mac operating systems. Please give me your input and suggestions. Is it worth it to mess around with this thing, or just sell it to someone who collects these and actually knows what they are doing? Thanks

Does holding the Option/alt key down at bootup bring up the boot manager?
Tough without the Install disc, but some things to try...
Does it boot to Single User Mode, CMD+s keys at bootup, if so try...
/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
(Space between fsck AND -fy important).
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
See Tom's, (Texas Mac Man), great info on where/how to find/get Tiger...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9755670&#9755670
Or Ali Brown's great info on where/how to find/get Tiger...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10381710#10381710
Do you have another Mac with Firewire around?

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