Startup is locked. Unable to unlock

This happened yesterday as my IMAC G5 Tiger 10.4 is frozen. I powered down and it would get to the end of loading and nothing. It would just sit there and stop. I had no problems with the machine until yesterday. It started when I was in System preferences and hit display and it went to that spinning wheel and would not stop so I powered down. When It re-started it was locked. Blue Screen with the Blue Bar. How do I get the computer back out of this "locked" Posistion?

Hitribefan1962 , and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Tiger Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
Tell us how far you get on this.

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