No start up & ugly tone sound & flickering front light!!

hello,
thanks for reading my topic question.
I have a question about my iBook's recent problems; they seem solved but little signes show I am heading for the same "crash"??
Under OS X10.3.3 (original from first buy July 2004) my iBook developed problems:
-suddenly quitting applications, at first the same ones repeatingly, later random as it seemed, Mail, Safari, iPhoto, but in the end also Dreamweaver.
-not starting up applications: showing them in the dock, but the menu's wouldn't work
-certain applications such as Toast totally vanished from the iBook. Nowhere to be found!!
-the documents folder wouldn't open: it would jam the whole computer. I don't know how many times I had to restart the iBook.. or how long I waited hoping it would finally find it's way. It seems the files in the Document folder were only accessible when displaying icons. No other folder had these kind of problems.
- it needed reinstallment of the original cd 3 times, to get Mail back on track. But after 3 times it had no more effect. Apllications as Mail and Safari wouldn't start anymore. Finally Dreamweaver wouldn't start anymore either. And the documents file never got better after the reinstallments.
-All in all, about two months of growing trouble. I use the iBook everyday.
I starting backing up all my files.
- in 2 months time I had 2 crashes (the black screen with sqaure in the middle, jaoanes/chinese characters....requiring a restart. I believe this =has a name and is very bad, but I can't remember the name.
Help was on the way; my familypack share Tiger 10.4 all the way from Holland to Greece.. on a dvd. As we (me and my Mac using family) thought the old system was just worn out..
All my files, everything saved on back up cd's. this was a slow and difficult process as the cd's would often not be recognized after a certain period of time (while filling it) so that I couldn't burn it. I had to start over again many times. (to have it recognized I needed to exit and reload). And in the meantime my Toast version had vanished.
-Then ready for Tiger. Erase and install....
all went well, succesfully installed, so...restart.
Seemed fine at first, but the start up never got past the white screen with the rotate gear below the Apple. I could wait a decade.. it didn't go any further.
-tried several keyoptions and restarting. no result.
-The iBook was producing a strange sound like a tone from the telephone and after this weird sound like two seconds it would flicker the little round light in the front of the iBook for one second. After that the start up would preceed untill the white screen with apple.
In all forums I couldn't find anyone with this similar detail<<<<<</div>
-ALL the tricks in the book were tried to find out what was wrong. The iBook was actually reporting to be fine!
-it reported it couldn't get passed the login window. But this was an "erase and install" new system... why the login window?? It wasn't really erasing?
- it wouldn't start up from the original install cd anymore. So that was it. Stuck. Disaster of course.
Anyway, after searching for the Apple doctors here in Greece and thankfully being able to show the original invoice, the iBook went to Athens.
In Athens they concluded the iBook needed a new Hard Disk. I decided for 80GB instead of the 60GB it originally came with.
It's working.
Though, Mail has already quit once. Safari has already quit once, One resart gave me the same sound and flickering light as before, the software update keeps quitting whatever I do.
Does anybody know what is really wrong with my iBook?? I can't imagine a new hard disk within another 2 months is going to be the solution.
the iBook is now running under tiger 10.4.
I tried updating this to 10.4.6 which has not succeeded as yet. (i have added this software update problem to another topic on this forum).
I feel like I'm handeling a time bomb. I never expected this from my Mac.
Maybe someone recognizes anything. Or knows what is exactly going on.
the iBook is a precious tool for me and the only computer that I have. If you would know how few mac's there are in Greece...
Doing without my Mac for one month! and having to work on windows pc's.....if I can find one with software on it. This is Greek drama!
Thanks to all you very smart Mac friends,
Miki.
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4)   1,2 GHz / 768 MB DDR SDRAM / new HD:74.53 GB Toshiba

Sorry for your problem,
but glad to hear of a similar case.
Although it seems it did'nt occure exactly the same way it does sound very similar.
Indeed it seems not be a software problem as reinstallment of my 10.3.3. at the time didn't help much when little problems where already occuring.
In my case I was also unable to start from the original install cd after it eventually chrashed. I couldn't eject it the normal way either.
I also reset the PMU and the PRAM with no result for starting up. My screen turned white though, so just 1 step further.
The diagnose was the HDfailure.
And after having it repaired, a new one put in, it seems to be working okay. Because of the time consuming procedures I was without mac for more than a month. (The repair here in Greece was 160 euro's for the HD, 62 for the technician, and a total of 23 euro for the courier to bring to and take it from Athens).
I didn't know of any software before (and probably) couldn't have used it anyway as there was no other mac to find in miles around/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png) to try and fix the Hard Disk. Through Apple Discussions I found something that might be of use for you:
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html.
Disk Warrior is said to be the best in fixing hard disks. you can check with the search option to find out more what others have said or go to the site.
I'm certainly getting my copy, I'd rather be prepared for a next time.. of course no guarantee that it will actually work, but you can give it a go.
Still I am very concerned as the noisy and lighty start up DID happen again/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png/___sbsstatic ___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png
1 time when the computer required a restart.
I had only just received it back.
Maybe another experience can confirm what's actually causing this.
Good luck/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png please let me know how it works out?
Miki

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