Powers Up but nothing else! HELP!

Hello, I am trying to fix my wife's 2003 PowerBook G4. It starts up, have the fan and drive noise but it just goes to the white/gray screen with the apple logo and the circle running below it. It won't leave this screen just keeps making the running noise. I tried to reset. Pretty sure I did it right, but still have the same problem.

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First, try booting while holding the SHIFT key. Keep holding until you get a message about "safe mode" or you get a normal desktop. This does some directory checking. If you get a desktop, don't try to use the computer as none of the extensions for special functions have loaded. Instead, restart normally and see if the desktop returns.
If that does not work, you need to insert the system CD/DVD, either the grey one that came with the computer or a Mac OS retailer install disk. If the computer boots, that indicates that the major hardware in reasonably good and the problem is more likely with some corruption on the hard drive.
If the computer boots from that system disk, it will present you with options to reinstall. Don't. Instead, look in the installer's menus for the option that lets you launch Disk Utility (DU) and run it. In DU, highlight the PowerMacs' hard drive and select "Repair Disk form the First Aid tab.
In the profile, the OS on the PowerBook is listed as "Other." If its not a MAc OS, what is it? The instructions I posted are for a computer running a version of Mac OSX.

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