G4 Died after transfer

Hello everyone-
Got a new iMac yesterday and used a firewire cable to transfer my G4 Powerbook info to the new machine. The good news: the transfer was flawless including iTunes library and the only adjustment I had to make was updating the printer drivers.
The bad news is the Powerbook now will not boot. Initially the machine would emit 3 beeps and the the sleep light would blink on and off 4 times then steady for 5 seconds. I read in Apple documentation that this indicates "no good memory banks".
I removed the battery, removed the DIMM and reseated it. Closed up the machine and it rebooted fine. This afternoon, however it would not boot normally- first attempt producing a random pattern on the screen, the second from the boot CD initially ran OK, however the machine stalled during disk permission repair and displayed the "restart your computer splash screen". On subsequent attempts, we are back to the 3 beeps 4 blinks.
This is an old machine which I hoped to allow my kids to use for internet access. Is it worth dropping a new DIMM in or do the problems likely run deeper?
Also anyone ever heard of the transfer via firewire frying the machine or is this just a coincidence?
G4 512MB 30GB hard drive OSX 10.4.9

I think it's just coincidence that you have memory problems. You can try substituting another memory card, however, that may/may not fix it. If in the US, you can have Apple repair that with a replacement logic board for around $350 by having the Apple store send it to the Apple depot. Since they will put it back to almost new condition, the price does go up if, for example, the case is banged up, which they will also replace.

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