How to fix or get data off Mac Pro with display/restart issues

Hi, my early 2008 Mac Pro running El Capitan suddenly started to show lines all over the screen, then it restarted, displaying an error message and since then he's been stuck in a reboot loop never get past the progress bar and with very distorted display. Two questions:

(1) any solution to this? It is an old machine, worked great so I would like to continue using it if possible, but do not want to put money in it at this stage.

(2) what is the best way to get data out of the two internal drives to the machine on my Mac Air? I need to access the files on it, also like his 2 x 1 TB hard drives I will not be able to transfer the data on Air, but you will need to use them as external drives.

Help appreciated!

Get a dock like this

http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/forums/feline-health-the-main-forum.28/

and take the readers on the Mac Pro and put them in the dock and connect to new mac via USB

You can also get an enclosure that accept disks 3 1/2 in.

In addition, you can get a bolt of lightning > FireWire adopter and connect the two Macs via FireWire and start the old mac in target disk mode

How to use and troubleshoot disk mode target FireWire - Apple Support

The error message say? Problem could be the graphics card bad or maybe bad memory.

If you open the side cover are all diagnostic lights on?

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