My G5 will no longer shut down or restart. Please help.

I cannot shut down the computer by choosing shutdown or restart. I have run disk warrior and tech tools pro with no success. Do I need to reinstall all or part of system 10?
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Fisrt, try removing all peripherals, especially USB ones. Someties a previously well-behaved device can start interferring with shutdown or sleep if the device or it's cable goes bad.
Try Starting Up in Safe Mode, then see if the Mac will shutdown or restart. If it does, you have some extension conflicting with normal shutdown operations. You can check what's in the StartupItems folder, removing everything and returning items one at a time until the problem returns; you can also use Activity Monitor and see if you can glean info from what it shows as you try to shut down or restart.

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