G4 won't start up with radeon 9800 installed

Hello, I have a Radeon 9800 pro that I bought used about a year ago and it has been working just fine. Recently however, I went to turn on my computer after a power outage (I had to reset the PMU, as well), and it gave me a boot sound, and then nothing, no video, no startup, no other noises from the hard drives. It's like it just freezes right after the post and will not continue startup. Long story short, I removed the 9800 and put the stock vid card back in (a Geforce 2MX) and my computer starts up normally. I have been unable to find any info about this online, so I was hoping someone could shed some light on it. I have a battery backup, but I was not present at the time of the outage, and I'm assuming that my UPS failed to properly shut my computer down, and I know how much my G4 hates that...
FYI, I have a g4 quicksilver 867mhz running 10.4.9, an Arctic Cooling aftermarket fan on the card, and I believe everything is up to date with the card as far as firmware, driver updates, etc. My UPS is a TrippLite with AVR. Maybe my power supply is going out? I can't imagine that the vid card got fried. I don't see how. I'm stumped...
Any insight is greatly appreciated!

Thanks for the reply. I'm a little peeved because I think this happened after a power outage, and my battery backup didn't do its job.

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