Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Would love to except I can't see anything on screen so have no idea whether it's doing anything or falling over when it boots up.

. . . . mmmm, you need a working monitor.

Would booting up from the original start up disks in target mode make sense..

It would make no sense, target mode bypasses the system OS and effectively turns your Mac into a hard drive - that you can then connect (via Firewire) to another computer like any other hard drive.

If you want access to the original start up disks simply insert them into your laptop.