OSX 10.5.4 won't startupte

My computer crashed froze last night during normal browsing and won't start up. i've tried the safe startup (holding the shift key down), but nothing happens. The screen is grey with the apple logo and there is the spinning wheel below.
Any suggestion on how to startup?

accumbens wrote:
Interesting. I changed the keyboard to the old one, that did allow resetting the PRAM. it started up with the leopard dvd. I went into the disk utilities, but it won't let me click on the repair HD. i clicked on the verify disk, but that failed also.
any further suggestions on the next steps?
I suspect a bad HD, but don't give up yet. There are two more tools to use.
There is DiskWarrior
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
and there is
TechTools
http://www.micromat.com/ (which is free if you have the AppleCare subscription)
There is also another option, more to simply verify if your data are intact:
Download ubuntu, burn it to a CD and boot it, do not install it.
Using Ubuntu (a free Linux-like OS) you can look at your HD if it's possible and see what is there.
http://www.ubuntu.com/
IF you HD does not show up with Ubuntu, then either the HD or the logic board is probably kaput.

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