Spinning Apple, No Boot Up

My fears came true, 6th time this has happened to me, though not for a long time.
My Mac was on for a lil bit, but it needed to restart, when it tried booting up all it ever does is the spinning apple logo.
Then after about 2 mins, it will restart on it's own, again, starting from the apple logo spinning.
I've held down C, Shift and Command S and all it ever does is crash. It won't progress from the apple logo.
Please, help.
Either i hate Apple for the rest of my life and go back to windows (hard to say) or sell this piece of loveable ****.
Message was edited by: Matt-Beasley
Message was edited by: Matt-Beasley
Message was edited by: Matt-Beasley

Suggest that you repost over in the Intel-based iMac Forums where the Intel users hang out.
This area is for G5 iMac issues.

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