G5 HD spinning out of control, resulting in frozen system. Help!

I have an Apple Power Macintosh G5 2.0 DP (PCI-X 2) running OS 10.5. Well-maintained and in excellent condition, it performed flawlessly for years. Recently, however, the internal 1 TB drive began spinning at a very high rate of speed, resulting in a frozen system. Booting from the second internal drive resulted in the same problem, as did booting from an external drive. Disk Utility and Tech Tool Pro could not discover any hardware problems. Could the problem be related to a faulty HD controller and, if so, what are my repair options? Any help would be welcome. Thanks.

Get Temperature Monitor to see if it's heat related...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12381/temperature-monitor
And/or iStat Pro...
http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/
If you have any temps in the 70°C/160°F range, that's likely it.

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