My G5 Mac Quad is locking up on me.

The Error message I am getting when it locks up is:
Unresolved kernel trap PC=ox000000 35E68 CPU exception state sv=0x71586
Do I have a memory problem or a CPU problem?
Is it time to take my system to the repair shop?
Chuck

You might want to ask this in the G5 forum: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=108
-DH

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