My PowerBook 17 inch g4 1.5 ghz will not start up.

I have tried everything,I had a disk image of os x 10.5
And opened disk utility and tried to restore my computer to the os x 10.5 from 10.4
And restarted the computer and when it turned on I got the grey apple screen and below is the search icon that every Mac has,but it never starts up it just keeps going in a circle?
I don't know if I fried my hard drive? Can I do anything at this point?
I can't get to any other screen??
Please help

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1. Do Not Panic Yet.
2. Obtain a Physical copy of the 10.5 or 10.4 Install/Repair Disc.
3. Insert the Disc into the drive and Startup the machine holding the C key.
There are three possible things that could have happened.
You could have messed something up in the whole "restore process"
Your Hard Drive is dying
Your Logic Board is failing
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If the CD boots Up, Run DiskUtility to diagnose a failing HD
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