G5 will not restart or shut down

Help. Mg g5 will not shut down or restart

"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.
Repair both Disks.
Also, In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (without the quotes)
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.
If it does contain data...
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2474

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USB cable. The battery is charged to at least 30%.
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Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista Available USB port (not a hub or secondary port). Java 1.5 or later is installed. If you are not sure about what version of Java you have, or even if Java is installed, go to www.java.com and click the Do I have Java? link to install the latest version of Java. 210MB of storage space. Internet connection.
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The update process will take approximately 15 minutes. During this process, your device will not be available for use.
Downloading webOS Doctor
Download webOS Doctor on your desktop computer. If you have a webOS profile, get it from http://ws.hpwebos.com/webosdoctor/sorry.htm
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Unpredictably, Firefox hangs and does not load websites. It can be closed, but will not restart without shutting down the Firefox.exe *32 process via task manager.

This happens during almost every session I am online with Firefox on this computer alone. I have been using FF for years without issue.

Way too complicated to solve the problem of "firefox is already running ....etc." and there must be a more simple solution to this problem which occurs once in awhile.
It seems to me that Mozilla developers can find a better solution and one that allows control-alternate-delete to fix the problem.
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Why can I not restart or shut down my imac without using the power button?

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Reset the SMC and then try a restart or shutdown from the drop down menus.
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My Iphone 5 got stuck when I did rest all Settings in my iphone 5 and my iphone do not restart or shut down. The phone do not have the ability to shut down.

my Iphone 5 got stuck when I did rest all Settings in my iphone 5 and my iphone do not restart or shut down. The phone do not have the ability to shut down.

Did you try to press and hold the home and sleep button for about 10sec, until the Apple logo comes back again? You will not lose data by resetting the device.
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I unplugged everything except the monitor and keyboard. I ran AppleJack under the deep cleaning mode ("applejack AUTO") after first running it in the normal setting ("applejack auto shutdown"). Still, it will not shut down—even under single user mode as is required when using Applejack. Needless to say, I tried everything else first, although I was a little hesitant to shut down everything via Activity Monitor as a first try. Still, running Applejack should have cleaned everything out. Any idea as to what is happening? The only changes I've made to this computer is to put a second hard drive in the "B" bay. This is the HD from my previous G5 that had a power supply meltdown. I pulled the HD and put it in the lower bay ("B") and continued to use it as my start up drive in my replacement G5. Does it matter which of the two HDs is my start up? Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help. Quite frustrating.
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Thanks, Bruce, I'll try your suggestions. I do have some things plugged into the UPS besides the CPU: a USB hub, the monitor, a USB HD for back-up and a plug-strip. I did plug the CPU into a non-UPS outlet and the problem persisted. On restart, I get the message "OSX was not shut down properly..." and I'm given an option to see a report. Always when I click report nothing happens. I check Console to see where the report went, but there is no file with the name it presents. Today, however, it did generate a report. I don't see a way to attach a file to this post (what's up with that?)so I'm including it here. This report was generated after I tried to shut down, the blue screen persisted for about five minutes, and I hit the power button to turn off the CPU (still plugged into the wall, not the UPS.) The report below was generated on the subsequent start up.
Thanks for all your help so far. I have to get a little work done, but I'll give your advice a go later on this evening. And now the report...
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x400 - Inst access DAR=0x00000000E9C55000 PC=0x0000000000000000
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Exception state (sv=0x690D8780)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x40009030; DAR=0xE9C55000; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x002C949C; R1=0x37263DC0; XCP=0x00000010 (0x400 - Inst access)
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Exception state (sv=0x690D8780)
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Exception state (sv=0x53B33A00)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
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Proceeding back via exception chain:
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