What is up with my iMac?

So here is what is happening to my iMac, (by the way its a power g5 non iSight leopard OS)It began to freeze and slow down , got the grey screen and would not boot up again. Tried all of the combination of command + keys available, nothing. Tried target mode, etc, pretty much tried it all, moved to beleiving that my hard drive had fried, I replaced it.
Placed the original dvd and booted into it, after a very long time, and I do mean long time, I was able to get into disk utilities, also the old hard drive, the one I thought was dead, I put into a slay and pluged it into the mac.
Disk utilities saw my newly installed drive, and saw my old drive, I proceeded to do a scan and fix on the old drive and thought it would all be okay. Went back installed my old drive and removed my new drive, since I thought that the problem had been solved, but nope. I was unable to boot into the mac again, so I went into it again and replaced the hard drive again, with the new one, and booted with the original dvd.
Once inside the installation I did the disk utilities, and tried to format the drive, erase the drive , but nothing it gave me an error and was unable to install the os.
Does anyone one have any idea what is going on? I am pretty certain that the hard drive is not the cause, but what can it be?
Anyhelp appreciated!!

You can't format it before putting it in the Mac, I just wondered if you had bought one which came already Windows formatted, many drives do. Did Disk Utilities from the install disk come up with any errors? Do you have DiskWarrior or TechToolPro?
It could be that your logic board had failed, but give resetting both your PRAM and SMU a go.

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After all, sorry for my english.
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