Gray Circle on startup

I have a Quicksilver Dual 1GHz desktop that started having some problems with the original hard drive (4.5 years old). I a new 160GB Seagate drive and installed 10.4.6 and have this problem: it takes a LONG time to startup, I initially get the gray apple, but after about a minute and a half into the startup cycle, the apple changes to the gray circle with the slash through it. The computer still has the spinning "segments" and after another 45 secs, I get the blue screen, and then a normal startup. The computer works fine. I tried all the recommendations found in this discussion group (I think) such as zaping the PRAM, resetting the nvram via open firmware, resetting the PMU, checking the battery voltage, and repairing the permissions - anything I missed? I'm just a little befudled with the gray circle, and then a normal startup, as slow as the startup cycle is.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Chris

Well, I think I fixed the problem. I didn't seem to have the same problem when I started from the Tiger install DVD (the gray circle), so I pulled out 3rd party USB2 card, reseated the memory and video card, and restarted. Still the same problem. As a last resort, I swapped out the original ribbon cable with the new one that came with the new hard drive since the CD/DCD drive seemed to work normally (thought maybe the ribbon cable had gone partially bad). The desktop is now back to speed.
As a side note, I ran the hardware diagnostics disk and everything checked good.
Chris

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MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2
1 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core
4 GB RAM
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
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