powerbook g4 wont start up

[bigd9lives]

My computer slowed way down the other day,,, taking very long to load anything,,, and finally froze. I freaked out and manually turned it off. Now everytime i try to reboot the screen stays black. I can just barely see the apple symbol on the screen if i'm in a well lit room. The startup chime sounds, and the cd in the drive spins but that's it. I managed to eject the cd and insert the opperating system cd,,, but nothing changes. What do I do?? o and I upgrade the ram a while ago,, is it possible that the ram is bad?

 

[edadams]

Hi
On boot when you can barely see the apple logo, can you see it change to the desktop at some stage? Try pressing and holding down the brightness control to increase the screen brightness.
I would remove the RAM for now and see if it improves the boot process.
Ed