My Power Mac G3 Starts but has a box with a (?) in it

Hello I am new here and wanted to know what you guys think of this because i am not necessarily a mac pro.
When i start my Power Mac G3 All that comes up on my screen is a box with a question mark in it. What i think that means is that i need a new operating system for it but i don't really know that to think because i don't want to mess it up.
Thanks for clearing all of this up
Message was edited by: TyboyVisser

Hi TyboyVisser, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Close, it means it can't find a Driive to boot from..
Couple of things to try...
Hold the Option/alt key down at bootup, does anything show up eventually as a boot choice?
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert your Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it finishes.
(If perchance you cant Find your Install Disk, at least do the Safe Boot part above).

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