Can't get past the grey loading screen with the apple

My ibook was working fine for a while and then all of a sudden I turned it on one day and the desktop came up but none of the icons or toolbars came up. I talked to a few people about that and they seem to think that is was the os going out of whack.
So, I tried to install tiger and when i did that it would only come up to the blue screen that said it was loading os x.
So i thought maybe it installed funny so I tried to reinstall it, but it wouldn't let me. I kept getting a bunch of different errors.
So now, when I try to turn it on it just stays on the grey screen with the apple on it and sometimes the apple goes away and turns into a white square that has dots and lines in it.
Can anyone PLEASE help me out???

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Which model iBook is it? (What is its processor's MHz rating?)
Which version of the OS is installed on it now?
If OS X 10.2 or above is installed on it, you can try booting into Safe Mode. This will take quite awhile longer than a normal startup because it does a file check and repair of the hard disk.
If this works you will see your normal desktop. Once completely started up in Safe Mode, try to restart normally, and go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. Click on the top hard drive icon in the left sidebar and note the S.M.A.R.T. status at the bottom right of the pane. What does it say?
Select the named boot volume in the left sidebar, ("Macintosh HD" unless you've renamed it). What is the hard drive capacity and how much space remains available on it? Repair permissions on it.
See if you are able to do a little hard drive maintenance to help things out.
I hope it works for you.

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