No Boot! CRASH?? Chime but nothing more

Powerbook G4 17" 1.67ghz, 1G RAM
I had to cold shutdown and when I restarted I heard the Chime like normal and the screen lit up with the off white like normal but nothing happened after that...it was stuck there. I listened and could hear clicking and all kinds of odd noises from right under where the capslock key sits. I can push the power button and it turns itself off immediatly and attemt to restart but the cycle just continues.
Question is what happened, is it a hard-disk crash or can something be done otherwise? ... Read about reseting the Power Management but I don't want to try anything until I get some responses from you guys.
Yes the battery is in and the power adapter is plugged in and lit up.

Carl: I checked for that startup sound prefpane and I don't have it. Also, here is a copy of my console and there isn't anything there either. thanks for your help
Mac OS X Version 10.4.3 (Build 8F46)
2005-12-05 10:12:40 -0700
Device Appeared
Found a device...
Activating the message port
Activiating timer port
<CFURL 0x301410 [0xa073a150]>{type = 15, string = Contents/PlugIns/,
base = <CFURL 0x301a80 [0xa073a150]>{type = 15, string = file://localhost/System/Library/Extensions/IomegaSAM.kext/Contents/Resources/Iom egaDriver.app/, base = (null)}}
<CFArray 0x303b60 [0xa073a150]>{type = mutable-small, count = 2, values = (
0 : <CFUUID 0x302380> 6489D402-14F7-11D6-96CE-00306557676C
1 : <CFUUID 0x303400> 21ED6942-3C86-11D6-BC93-00306557676C
before CFRunLoopRun
Dec 5 10:12:43 brian-cxxx-power-mac-g4 mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local.
2005-12-05 10:12:45.233 SystemUIServer[93] lang is:en
Dec 5 11:49:00 brian-cxxx-power-mac-g4 configd[32]: AppleTalk shutdown failed, status = 71 (retrying)
Dec 5 11:49:00 brian-cxxx-power-mac-g4 /usr/sbin/AppleFileServer: AFPServer::AbnormalATListenerShutDown - clear listener

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