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definitely take airport card out and reboot
If that doesn't work, then try taking out any extra ram you have fitted and reboot (its under the airport card if you have)
You also forgot to mention that you're running 9 and not X
If your hard drive has had a terrible moment, then what Al said about target disk mode is true...but it may not work at all unless you have another computer attached - im not sure
If you have another computer, connect your ibook to it via firewire, then hold T on startup on the iBook - the drive should appear as an icon on the other computer, from where you can try and see what's wrong with the drive/ressurect it/whatever
I am not sure if this is how it works with OS9 though, but that's what any tech will be trying to do first if you handed it over
If you can get access to the drive from ANY computer then it may be salvaged/fixed
Of course, that's if the drive is at fault
I know this is a horrible question, but how often have you been running 'nice' programs such as norton disk doctor, and have you been defragging the drive much, if at all? Also, has the computer been absolutely fine up till now, or getting 'worse' in any way speed wise/disk access wise?
Another thing - your computer guy MAY have (big MAY) installed a firmware update to get your airport thing working which may also have done something to the inner workings of your computer - if that update is incompatible then you may need to install the older firmware back
Have you checked out the apple discussion forums?
No one seems to have mentioned the obvious, holding shift down on startup just to disable extensions. It seems odd to me that you're getting a startup chime and then nothing. When I've had nothing in the past i've had REAL nothing.
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