Can't get disk to work...

I have a G4 powermac. I bought it used. When I got it it had an old operating system and a bunch of software that I did not need so I decided to just erase the whole thing. It came with three internal drives, a 40 gb, 60 gb and a 120 gb, that were running off of some kind of inetrnal card. Not sure if its a SCSI, cuaes the drives are all ATA drives and the plugs fit either way. I also have an external FW drive that has an operating system 10.4.5 and Tech Tool 4 that I use to back up to and also for maintenance. I started up off of this external drive and after erasing the three inetrnal drives I decided to RAID the drives together. I did that and installed the OS and everything seemed fine. When the comp started up off of the RAIDed drives, it would not get past the apple picture at startup. I tried to hold the C key to start off of the install DVD, but it still stayed on the apple picture. I tried holding down the option key and all I got a picture of a big padlock and it wouldn't indentify either the install DVD or the external FW. Next I took one of the drives and connected it to another G4 and used my maintenance FW to erase the drive and install the OS on it. It wokred fine and has no probale starting up the oter G4, but it still will not start up the G4 I took it from originally. That computer will not recognize any opertating system. The internal drive has an OS that will start another comp but not that one. It will not start off of teh external FW drive or the Install DVD, either. It just sits there now with the folder with the questrion mark looking for a drive. When I hold down the Option key it just shows the big padlock symbol and the arrow. Any help, please?

It sounds like the problem started when you decided to raid the drives.
Are you still trying to raid the drives? I am not sure you are saying that you have a PCI ATA Card or a PCI SCSI card ... or do you have a card?
I would start by taking the PCI card out and installing one HD on one of the buses from the mother board. Make sure that the jumper settings on the HD is correct. (Master/Slave/Cable Select???)
You can unplug all the internal drives and start up from your external FW or the DVD. If it boots you know it was a conflict with your HD's

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