Ibook G3 won't pass the apple screen on startup!

Hi guys
My sister's bought an used ibook G3 model M6497 (2001), it was working great until onde day she tried to turn it on and it won't pass through the apple screen. An icon keeps spinning, i can hear the HDD spinning too but nothing else happens. I tried to go to the setup screen holding down the option key while you power it on and it kicks me to a blue screen with a HDD icon in the middle of the screen and a X on the bottom left corner of the same HDD icon and this icon has written 'untitled' underneath. On the left side of this HDD icon a refresh button and on the right a straight arrow (continue) button. If i press the straight arrow it brings me back to the apple screen and won't pass it, if i click the refresh nothing changes on that same blue screen, also i can't select the HDD icon.
She doesn't have the recovery cds, the person who she bought it from did not had them either, and it's impossible to find those cds.
Any help here would be very welcomed.
Thanks.

I'm afraid you're gonna need the system CDs.
You can find the serial number:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27282?viewlocale=en_US
and then try _calling Apple_. Ask for Legacy Hardware, give them the serial number, and see if they have the CDs available for the iBook. If they do, they will send them to you (for a fee).
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