Startup screen on my 24" iMac freezes. Gray dial below the gray apple stops and that's it

am using 10.4.11.  24/2.33/2 x 1GB/256VRam/240/SD
I start the computer, the gray apple shows and the gray circle of lines starts spinning.
Then freezes and nothing.  It does this with a computer startup, with a safe startup, and with the system disk startup.
It will not open to my desktop.
I can acccess the files via an old iMac via our home network  But can't acess the disk utilit

It sounds like a failed HDD, run Apple Hardware Test in EXTENDED MODE. If if comes up with erros please Google them to see what they mean.
I'd also recommend reading Gray screen appears during startup.

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