Powerbook g4 17 starts but turns off immediately

Can someone help me in figuring out what is the problem with my laptop. It would make the chime sound boots, but never goes beyond that before it shuts off.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Marimar702 wrote:
Curious..if you know? Doesn't a bad HDD make noises. Mines sounds just fine but what do I know?
Occasionally you might hear noises from a failing HD, but that is the exception in my experience.  If there is directory corruption, for instance, noise is absent, as it is with a completely failed drive.  In single-user mode (cmd-S at power up) you can check the root directory condition with the following two Unix commands:
/sbin/mount    -uw   /   <enter>
/sbin/fsck     -fy    <enter>
The second command will check and attempt to repair the directory structure of the boot volume.  This looks much like "Repair Disk" in Disk Utility and will provide much the same running output in the terminal window that you would see in the information window of Disk Utility in the "First Aid" tab.  If fsck reports that it has repaired the volume, it is good form to repeat the second command above until it reports the disk is OK and no repairs have been made.  You can then try a reboot by using the following command for an elegant reboot:
shutdown   -r    now     <enter>

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