Help! Light gray magnified apple logo then goes black and dies.

Hi,
Whenever I start up my macbook pro a lighter than usual gray screen pops up with a magnified apple logo and spinning wheel, it then proceeds to go to a black screen and stays there. I tried starting it up in single user mode and running fsck but that didn't do anything it failed to notice that there was a problem. I then tried running disk aide from my start up disk but it failed to find anything wrong with my computer. I replaced my hard drive with a new one and retried all of those things and still the gray screen would appear. I also ran disk utility and and verified and repaired disk permissions and nothing worked. In addition to that i tried resetting my ram. I have no clue how to fix this I've searched all over the web but can't find anything. I desperately need my computer for school.
Thanks
Dave

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See Article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377 MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues

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