Help my powerbook wont start

Im having trouble starting my powerbook. When I turn on the computer first I see a folder with the question mark, then a grey screen with a black square in the middle saying that i need to restart my computer. I know its a Kernel panic. I tried to use the disk utility to repair it. It repairs but it still wont start up. I tried re-installing the software and it cant find a drive to install it. I try to turn it on in safe mode and a bunch of information about the kernel appears and at the end it says "panic: We are hanging here. . ." So i dont know what to do. Can someone help me please. Thank you so much.

It could be your ram. Inspect that is in place properly.

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Even if I try to follow the installation process there is no destination shown in the window of the installer.
Have I lost everything? Please can some body tell me what I need to do?

When I tried repair disc I got
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When I tried verify disc I got
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This is the first problem I've ever had with my mac after 3 and a half years and unfortunately all my current work and photos are on there and they are not backed up!
I have ordered a copy of discwarrior so I'll see how I go. I hope it's straight forward to use as I'm no techy!
Thanks for your help
thanks
PS Could you possibly tell me how I could eject the installation disc as it does not respond to the eject button and the icon is not available on the repair/verify disc window?
Message was edited by: Karen Stone
Message was edited by: Karen Stone

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FrontRow--Hmmm.
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Torgeir,
Welcome to Discrssions!
The first thing I'd would be to run Disk Repair. Boot from your install CD. Once it's done click on the Apple and select Disk Utility. Run Disk Repair to see if it resolves the problem.
If not then reset the PRAM. Here's the instructions.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 07:55:11 +0000 (UTC), "reggiekray"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I even tried to uninstall and re-install, same problem.
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Hello
My G4 power book will not start.
when i turn it on a ther is a loud almost grinding noise.
and just a grey screen no apple sign or anything.
can anyone please help
thankyou
katrina

Yeah i backed up about 2 weeks ago so i am not really worried.
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Think it is time to take it to a professional.
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