ibook g3 not booting
I have this iBook G3 with both macos 10.3.x and macos 9.2.2. I switched it on a couple of times, it started up on macos 10.3.x and it seamed OK. Then I switched the startup disk to macos 9.2.2 and it does this weird behavior: it starts, shows the folder with question mark, after a while starts with the macos 9.2.2 and immediately after dims out the screen light to almost nothing and blocks when the startup loading bar is almost complete.
I've tried reset pram (Command-Option-P-R), force to boot from rom (Command-Option-X-O) and bypass (Command-Option-Shift-Delete). None did anything and it goes back to issue described above. The cd drive doesn't sound very healthy either.
Should I try anything else or is it time to new hard disk?
I have another ibook g3 and an iMac (both macos 9.2.2). Is it worth buying a firewire cable to try target disk mode?
Thanks in advance for your the help.