imac stuck on grey screen

[stephenxiii]

Rite guys in a bit of a situation
i recently used my mac after bein idle for about 2 months
and as soon as i switched it on it went straight to the grey screen.
here is what ive tried

booting in safe mode- once safe mode boots i just go back to grey screen
booting in safe mode via- shift + cmd + v and again back to grey

finaly i went and put my snow leopard disk in and booted from that and done a fresh instal, which is fine until i try and click on safari - photobooth etc
it just comes up and says safari forced closed try again.
and once i restart back to gray.


Grrrr hope you understand what im saying, im not very good at explaining stuff

 

[cobrasneverdie]

this happened to my macbook once, I'm not sure if this will help but if you have anything plugged in i.e. ipod, hard drive, phone. Try a reboot with out anything plugged in to usb.

If not then hope you find another solution

 

[toolbox]

Can you boot of your OS X DVD and verify the HDD? Sounds like the hard disk may have problems.

 

[Hellhammer]

http://guides.macrumors.com/Mac_doesn't_boot

Could be a bad HD

 

[stephenxiii]

Can you boot of your OS X DVD and verify the HDD? Sounds like the hard disk may have problems.

i had been booting from disk all day, and doing fresh instal
also doing a disk utility check and that came back fine.

In the end im back up and running, i removed my HD and placed it back in
thanks for all you help