PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5 - Red Circle w/ Line Then Shut Down

Hi all,
Just floating this question on the forum after some fruitless research. This is my friend's issue, and I wasn't personally there for it. I just type WAY faster than he does.
Here's his setup:
Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5 Ghz w/ 8 GB RAM
OS 10.5.8
500 GB WD Caviar Black Hard Drive
It's his Pro Tools rig (PT TDM HD3 7.4.2)
I assisted him in upgrading from Safari 4.x to Safari 5.0.6 for Leopard last weekend to resolve a possible issue he had with one site. I used that universal download that works on both PPC and Intel. The install went well, and the lovely green check mark came up. Had to force quit the installer before shutting down for the night for some reason. Other than that, it's been running for several days (with both starting up and shutting down each day) without a hitch until today.
He was running a nothing Pro Tools session, when suddenly, in his words, he saw a red circle with a line through it, the screen went black, and the Mac powered down. He said some choice words, started the Mac back up, and all seemed well. Booted fine, and he finished his session without further incident. He did say he had Safari open in the background, so I don't find it coincidental this is giving him grief mere days after a version upgrade.
After some research, I found several posts about a red circle with a line through it during STARTUP, but not while the system is fully booted up and running. Like I mentioned before, this is in his words, so I don't know if the system hard rebooted, had issues accessing the hard drive giving that red circle/line, and then shut down. Then, when he booted it, it went back to normal. Just guessing at this point. He has many external firewire hard drives hooked up, plus all the Pro Tools cards with I/O units attached, wireless mouse. God only knows what caused it.
I wonder if maybe he had some kind of wacked out power brown out, and the system just had a temporary coniption fit.
Anybody know of anything I can do or suggest to him to possibly begin to troubleshoot this? Intermittent problems are a pain. I might try having him go into Safe Mode and then reboot. Any other ideas??

Well, it couldn't writeto something big time, no idea what.
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