Gray screen on Mac Book Pro 2009

Help I'm having problems with my mac book pro 17" 2009.  I started with the mac behaving unusally cutting off and taking a long time to restart. then it would not restart at all.  I was able to get it to start by resetting the SMC, but after doing that I ended up with a gray screen, athe apple logo, a spinning wheel and a bar at the bottom, I've tries resetting the PRAm, but the same thing happens. also tried starting it by holding down the option key, which took me to disk utility but I'm not sure if I did that cocrrectly.  Any other suggestions.  I have read multilple article on Apple support and other web sites, so links to them aren't much help.

Sounds like a internal Board issue, Take it in to the nearest Apple Store, They will fix it there.
http://www.apple.com/retail/
This might help as well.
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570

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