Snow Leopard Server fails when I restart my Mac Pro

I have a new Mac Pro that I've been running Snow Leopard Server on. When I restarted my computer it wouldn't boot up. It would only get to the screen with the apple symbol and the spinning dial under it. I had to totally reset up the computer and server software. 2 weeks later the same thing happened and I had to reset it all up again! A week later the same thing happened so I just gave up and installed Snow Leopard. I was using the computer as a "regular computer" meaning I had all my music, photos, other apps.... but nothing was installed or changed the day and the day before it failed. I didn't even have time to set up web hosting and all that crap. I was just browsing the web using Safari.
And yes everything was up to date.
I would love to go back to Server but I'm not going through all that crap again!!
Any ideas for what the problem could be would be great!
one last thing. Finder froze the last time which is why I had to restart; if that helps anyone.
but please leave a message even if you think it wouldn't affect it.

I would suspect your jumpers settings are wrong. These are cable select...try that not slave/master

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