Imac G3 blue one won't work

I just bought a used imac G3 the blue one, it worked when I bought it but when I took it home it worked for awhile then it froze. I unplugged it and then plugged it back in but it did not go on. Then I tried later to plug it in again power it up again and the power button was only orange but it didn't go on. So I unplugged and plugged it back but it won't go back on.
Can any one please help me?

Try things in Texas Mac Man's tutorial.
If you get it going,Try using Disk Utility to repair your startup disk (hard drive) as shown in Dr.Smokes Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption. Hard shutdowns can cause directory corruption.
Cheers!
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