My MacBook pro only boots to a Grey screen and then tells me to restart

I start my MacBook pro up the apple logo comes on then a grey screen comes down from the top and it say hold down power botton for 7 seconds and restart but when I do it does the same thing all the time now

Your Mac is suffering from kernel panics.
I would suggest booting from the Install DVD and running AHT.
Allan

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