Just won't start up anymore.

A Duel 2 GHz G5 won't start up anymore. After and if it restarts, it keeps asking me it can't find Mouse and wants to search for Bluetooth mouse and such. Reset SMU and am in the process of restarting G5 at this moment. Fan is going crazy right now with blue screen just now opening. At least I am getting the blue screen. Before I was finally getting desktop but nothing else but machine wanting to search for Bluetooth mouse and such but never consistent. Sometimes start up would take forever but never finished. Kept asking for Bluetooth mouse. Just crazy. Fan is still going crazy and still blue screen.
Any ideas? Need help now Please!

Had to power button shut down 10 times to finally get tray open and ran DiskWarrior. Only been two weeks since last ran but critical issues repaired. After running DW restart and same thing. Fan running like crazy and won't finish restart. Sounds like problem previous message from Michael Vejar is having.
Will have to force shut down and take in to store for further work.

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When I woke my G5 1.8DP on 10.4.11 (Jan 05) this morning from sleep it froze and the fans went really loud.
I had to restart it with the power button, but it doesn't start up anymore now. The fans go on and turn really loud after about 2 minutes and the screen stays black (in sleep mode - lights pulsing). I can hear some of the usual whirring start-up noise. The light on the front doesn't go on, only when I press the power button to turn it off again it lights up. I did that a few time, disconnected it from the power supply, but no change. No start up sound, but I turned my computer on mute anyway.
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