My Mac Pro (Late 2013) with an Apple SSD as the only storage will not restart

I have a Mac Pro (Late 2013) with an APPLE SSD SM0256F as the only storage. When I restart all I get is the spinning bars. I have to manually hold the power button down to force shutdown. I have let it try to restart for as long as 30 minutes. It will start just fine from a shutdown. I am running Yosemite 10.10.2 (14C1510). I have used Disk Utility with no errors. The only time I need to restart is after a system upgrade. I have tried, as others have suggested, selecting the drive from the Startup Drive preferences with no difference. Any help is much appreciated!

Try resetting the SMC and NVRAM
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
About NVRAM and PRAM
Next note the time of text problem and then after reboot open the Console app and look for log entries at that time. Post suspicious ones here

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A screenshot is as follows:

Please test after taking each of the following steps.
Step 1
Back up all data.
Quit the application if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
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Repeat with this line:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AddressBook
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Step 2
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If you synchronize contacts with any other network service, disable that synchronization in the Internet Accounts preference pane.
Step 3
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Step 4
Quit Contacts. Reveal the following item in the Finder as you did in Step 1:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
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Launch Contacts. Your contacts and groups will be gone. If you took Step 3, then double-click the file you created in that step and confirm that you want to import from it. Your contacts and groups will reappear.
Step 6
If you took Step 2, reverse it. Test. If the issue is resolved, delete the AddressBook folder and the archive file on the Desktop and close the open folder window.
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Step 7
Go back to Step 3, but this time choose Export vCard... from the Export menu. Continue as in Steps 4-6. All contacts should be preserved, but you may lose some metadata such as group membership.

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Hi tschreiber10,
Thanks for posting on Adobe forums,
Please follow this document http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/ame-premiere-crash-launch-export.html
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jameskachan wrote:
…The obvious reason [sic] seems to suggest…
That's what it suggests to you, in the limited scope of your vision and knowledge, and without your having provided detailed specs about your hardware.
Due to the current unavailability of clairvoyants and mind-readers in the forum, we respectfully request you supply sensible, complete details.
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But I stop calculation when I need to have a web server (rarely :-) .
if i understand correctly,
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and
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http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/user/detail/3702/projectList
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