Macbook won't load leopard

I have a macbook with leopard 10.5.2 and it will not load. The computer goes to the apple with the pinwheel, then goes to a bluescreen but no further (with the pinwheel coming up for a little bit then going away). I have reset the ram, and tried to start it in safemode, single user, and verbose, but it won't do anything different. I am running bootcamp and the windows section works fine. But the mac section responds the same way everytime.

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