Macbook Pro hangs when trying to boot from disc

I'm attempting to reinstall OS 10.6, and normally it works just fine. However, I got this computer, it reads the Leopard disc just fine, I restart, hold down C and it just hangs out on the apple logo for hours on end and won't boot to disc.
Any ideas?

alainmeyer1 wrote:
Spinning gear? Never in my mac years have I seen a spinning gear when booting from the disc.
You should see what is variously described as a spinner, a spinning gear, or spinning clock appear below the Apple logo during startup any time you start up your Mac, whether from a DVD or HD. The spinner looks like a radial set of lines rotating in a clockwise direction, & indicates the kernel is loading, as described in Intel-based Mac: Startup sequence and error codes, symbols.
Booting from the original snow leopard cd; I don't believe I possess the original restore disc anymore.
In your first post & in your current profile info you indicate this is an MacBook Pro 17" Core i7 model; in your second post here the "Core i7" part is missing. This makes it hard to guess which 17" MBP model you are talking about. Note that each model has a minimum OS build version requirement & cannot start up from a lower version than that. Use the chart in Mac OS X versions (builds) included with Intel-based Macs to identify which version this is for your MBP & make sure your Snow Leopard DVD runs that version or later.
For instance, if this is a Core i7 MBP, it must be a Mid 2010 model & requires at least version 10.6.3, build 10D2063a, 10D2094, or 10D2101a. An original Snow Leopard DVD has version 10.6 & will not work with it.

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