Emac 1.25ghz 1gb (i think 10.4.11) grey screen/no boot.

Hi all,
eMac wont boot, just sits on the grey screen (with no spinning loading thing, no folder with question mark or anything). I cant tell if it is chiming (the speakers have never worked on it). It doesn't sound like the HD is spinning up (If i remember right emacs had fans so that is all I can here) - but am i right in thinking if the HD was broken it would go to the grey screen with folder with question mark?
any help greatly received,
Olly.

hmmmm.
Turns out it wasn't as simple as that....
After turning it back on with the stick of after market ram out, it booted up lovely into osx, ran nice. a couple of hours later the owner plugged her ipod into it - itunes said that the ipod was not registered to that mac (even tho the ipod has only ever been used with this machine). So I got called back to look at this. I clicked the 'sync' button in her itune's library and the screen went all blue (everything disappeared including the cursor).
I left it like it for a couple of mins - no change, held in the power button, turned it off then back on again, back to the gray screen from before, No boot. unplugged the ipod and her drawing pad thinggy.
turned it off, back on again - same thing. turned it off, unplugged the power lead for 5 mins, plugged back in turned on and booted fine into osx, perfectly. plugged the ipod in, it opened itunes and synced fine with no problems.
What I don't understand is why there is no pattern to it. could it be the ipod? - but before when it just had the grey screen nothing was connected to it and it still wouldn't boot, am I right in thinking that the ram I took out is fine and it was the unplugging of the mac from the power that made it boot?
Could it be overheating? - although it is completely standard mac and there is no blockage at the back of it so it can breath properly (am i right in thinking they have a thermo cut off so they just turn them selves off before causing themselves damage?)
thanks again,
Olly
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