Powerbook G4 wont get passed Language Menu Blue Screen

I have a G4 that I dropped. The optical drive stopped working before this incident. When I boot up, the apple logo shows up, it chimes, then proceeds to go to a language selection menu. After I click on English, it seems to process for a while, but never gets passed the blue screen. I was wondering if it was an issue with my logic board, my hard drive, or something else? If it boots up to this point is my logic board/hd ok?

You should run the Apple hardware test. It's either on your original OS X disks that came with the system, or yours is old enough it might be able to run from an image on http://www.info.apple.com/support/aht.html . If you have either of the TechTool programs, they can do similar testing.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
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http://meijerladdaruppgrejer.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/oops/
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Powerbook G4 wont get passed Language Menu Blue Screen

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