What Happened (beeping and ? mark)

Upon start up from sleep, my G4 began to give a beeping sound as though it were a truck backing up. Then the screen when to only a question mark folder and sound stopped. Repeated attempts to start to no avail. Used Panther start up disk holding down 'c'. Would not recognize internal hard drive. Finally used same disk holding down Apple control. Recognized hard drive. Did a change startup disk to hard drive and restarted. Everything OK — back from the dead. What happened? Is my G4 now on borrowed time?

Sounds like the hard drive may be iffy. The question mark on the folder means it can't find the hard drive to boot from.
Have you brought up Disk Utility to see what it says for the SMART status? If it's anything but 'verified' the hard drive is on it's way out. Have you run the Apple hardware test or either of the 2 TechTool tests? Older Apple hardware test images can be downloaded from http://www.info.apple.com/support/aht.html . Otherwised, insert the first OS X disk, reboot holding the option key down, choose Apple hardware test, click the arrow to the right, and choose the extended test when prompted. What's it tell you?
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