Apple symbol turns to block on boot screen and won't load past the screen

-This new problem has occured when I boot my G4 MDD.
-The Apple symbol appears on the screen and the loader at the bottom
continues to spin.
-Until a gray block appears in place of the Apple logo.
I can hear the computer still reving up until a certain point then it
seems to give up and the computer stays idle for however long I keep
the cpu on.
I reset the pram and held it for seven times and it worked but, when I
came home later after leaving it on, the tower shut down.
Again the gray block appeared and reseting the pram didn't do a thing.
I couldn't even get DiskWarrior to boot or the cpu to boot into single
user mode or verbose. I even tested each one of the rams to see if that could be the problem.
I'm pretty baffled and I hope this isn't a major problem, it seems it
might be just the hard drive going batty.
Thanks for any advice.

Hi! "it seems it
might be just the hard drive going batty." Sounds like you already know what the problem probably is. Tom

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