Blue screen on shutdown/restart

My PM has frozen with the blue screen and gearwheel on a couple of occasions recently. This appears to be associated with a general system slowdown after Aperture has been running for some time.
I did a search of the firum, and the closest I could find was this thread, which related shutdown problems to network drives. While my PM is on a network, these problems have only occurred with system slowness and Aperture.
I checked the console logs, but I really don't know where to start.
What diagnostics can be run to identify the cause of the problem before I start trying disk repair etc?

Hi, Nigel.
You might want to treat the "freezes and hangs" problem similar to a kernel panic as the basic troubleshooting and hardware testing steps are virtually the same. See my "Resolving Kernel Panics" FAQ.
Good luck!
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Hi, beth.lau.gr.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I understand you have been experiencing issues with your iPhone restarting and showing you a blue screen. I wont be able to give you an exact answer as to why this is happening. However, this is the most relevant troubleshooting article for this issue. This article also provides options to reach out to us via phone for additional assistance.
If your iOS device restarts, displays the Apple logo, or powers off while you're using it
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203899
Cheers,
Jason H.

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