Gray Screen Shade of Death

This is a first for me. I've had a brand new Mac Pro for 2 weeks. Twice now I've been just getting started and I've gotten the gray screen shade that descends upon my monitor with the message (in 4 different languages) that says "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button." I typically am running the same apps, so I haven't been able to isolate it that way, plus it's only happened twice. In fact, after the restart, I fired up the same apps all over again (Quicken, TurboTax, Entourage, iTunes, Safari). Here's the kicker: I used to do all of the same things 3 weeks ago on a single proc 1 GHZ G4 with only 2 GB of RAM.
Environment is as follows: OS 10.5.1 (Leopard), 4 GB RAM, (2) 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon.
Anyone seen anything like this or have any clues?

Not very encouraging to see the lack of replies. I know this was posted quite awhile ago and I'm thinking that you're issue should have been solved by now. If so, could you post a follow-up of your results?
I'm having a similar issue but its a bit backwards from yours in that I'm having the same gray screen issue on my old 1GHz G4 2GB RAM after running a boatload of system updates to an already updated 10.5.2 system.

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Exception state (sv=0x2d409780)
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Since 01/01/10 on laptop drives (Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi)
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+Drives that pass zero test, fail within 60 days - 0+
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+Drives that pass zero test, fail within 180 days - 4+
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I don't have a manufacturer break down, I suppose I should start logging that more closely. Anyway...
I have a new MacBook Pro (13" @ 2.4GHz) and booting off the installation disc, from selecting the installer disc via the boot manager to the language selection screen is ~ 6 mins and 44 seconds. I use that as an average, I did it over 10 restarts but it was a pretty fair assessment. The fact that the installer is freezing is definitely cause for alarm, that's not normal or to be expected. Process of elimination would tell me the following:
1.) The disc is bad
2.) The optical drive is bad
My understanding of the installer is the HD isn't initially accessed during the installer until you choose an install location (at which point it's mount point is verified).
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My MBP isn't sarting up. Everything looks normal the chime, Apple logo, the wheel and after those things it get stucked on a gray screen.
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SOME PHOTOS OF THE PROCESSES:
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Gray Screen o' Death

I have a 2-yr old Intel-based iMac. I am not too computer savvy and I really haven't kept track of what version of the OS I'm using (I think 10.6.4). Last night, I got a gray screen that curtailed over the internet video I was watching and said something like "Please restart your computer" in a bunch of different languages.
I have since learned that it was a Panic feature common to the OS. But at the time, I figured no big deal and restarted by holding down the power button on the back of the computer. When it restarted, the white screen came up and the rotating circle continued like normal, but when it loads the login screen, the screen goes black (backlight still on) and stays that way. I even can type my password in at that point and I can tell from the sounds/fan noise that I can still login. But the screen stay black. Becuse of this, I cannot pull up my panic log and see what originally caused the issue/if they are related.
Anyone know what I should do/what's wrong with my computer? I don't have install disks nor does safe mode work.

You suffered a Kernel Panic. These can be caused by many things however what happens most frequently is something related to the RAM. RAM can become unseated or fail, I'd start by removing your RAM (extremely simple to do if you look in your owners manual) and reseating it. If it still fails then remove attempt to figure out which stick went bad by a system of elimination.
You can do some additional reading and troubleshooting at the following sites:
Resolving Kernel Panics
Avoiding and Resolving Kernel Panics
Kernel Panic FAQ's
Roger

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