A boot up failure question

Actually,I asked this question few month ago, after, I bought a PC and now, I am missing the mac os sooooooo much~~~
any way, my problem is, Firstly, my mac can boot up to Grey Screen with boot chime but without Metallic Apple and spinning geer, from there, the boot chime will start repeat again, again and again, never ends unless I forced my mac off. Secondly, if I connect any USB device to the USB port next to the Firewire port, the mac will shut down and reboot again, of course with the same problem.
I tried push power button with C to boot from OS DVD,the light will flash really quickly for a little while and with a long beeeeeeep then get into the boot up problem again. So, just asking some idea that what might be wrong with the logic board? Is the USB port??
Thank you~~~~

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