My mac won't start up even after Apple manual suggestions. I jus installed snow leopard.

My IMAc freezes @ start up and it shuts down after 2 seconds.
I have tried all suggested ways to restart my iMac.
I also just installed snow leopard from tiger.

Did you try restarting it with the original DVD that came with your iMac? if so what happen?

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in really disappointed with apple,
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