My imac crt (2000) doesn't start up at all

The computer was starting to a question mark but i could not get it to start to a cd or respond in any way. So i pressed "the button" for 45 seconds as advised, but now it only lights up the power button with nothing at all on the screen.
After I pressed "the button" it beeped 3 times and the power button flashed yellow 3 times then green once then yellow 3 times . . . you get it. I couldn't find any info about that. Any hints?

Emergency Handbook by Apple can be found here...
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMacG3_originalEmergencyHndbk.PDF
Apparently more than one or two beeps is a bad thing.
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