Mac Pro wont restart after Snow Leopard upgrade

Hello,
I have Mc Pro 3,1 8 cores with OS X 10.5.8. I upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.3 then download another upgrade to 10.6.3. The download was successful but I need to restart my Mac Pro but it won't restart. I'm seeing Apple Purple/Pink in desktop. I waited for an hour to seee if it will change but nothing Happen. Can anybody help.
Thank you
Arnold

My own method, is to keep the old system as is, your safety net, and to do a clean install and let Setup Assistant help afterward.
If or when you upgrade past Snow Leopard be sure to do so, leave everything behind, Lion and above do not include support for the PowerPC coded apps and would cause trouble.
I think we have reached point where only 10.9.5 and Yosemite get full security support, Lion and earlier are gone as far as support and Lion did introduce a security bug just squashed finally but only in those later versions.
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