Starts up, shuts down

I have a G5 iMac (the white square/non Intel) running latest Tiger.
After a power/off due to a storm, it restarted but then shut down.
Now, when I start it up, the power light comes on, the chime plays, the power light fades out (to off) the video comes up and depending on one of the below scenarios, shuts down:
1- I have disc warrior in the drive. If i start with the c key down, I get a small artifact above the gray apple start-up screen and it just hangs. The fan comes on after about 30 sec.
2- Tried zapping the PRAM, no effect same as above but I get the spinning bar icons beneath the gray apple, then it shuts down.
I've unplugged everything, tried starting in safe mode but all to no avail.
Any ideas?
Thanks

If you have your original installer discs insert no.1. and hold down the C key as soon as you can and hold it down until you see a menu asking you to select a language...
After that select your language...then at the top of of the screen under one of the menu's (forgot which one) select disk utility, click on your Macs hard disk, and then click verify disk....if it has problems click repair...you should also verify and repair the permissions whilst you are in disk utility,
hope this helps

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