I have a 2005 g5 2.5 2g ram will not boot up ,blue screen with folder with finder icon question mark. have tried to boot from dvd disc by holding down ckey but all i get is apple logo and fans start running really fast.have tried hard drive in identcal g5

tried hard drive in another g5 but with the same result.can anybody suggest what might be wrong

had the same result on other g5 blue screen finder folder with question mark. i put the hard drive in the bottom bay of my g5 after and ran disk repair said disk ok .reparaired permissions tried hard drive in top bay again but with same result.
do i just disconnect the two connections on hard drive and then try your second suggestion?

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