G5 having trouble booting, don't always get a 'chime' noise

Trouble getting my G5 1.6ghz w/10.4.x to boot/start. Seems to be intermittent as far as hearing startup chime. Any suggestion?
The first few tries to start the G5 it would make no chime, nothing on the screen. Just some quiet whirring inside
I was unable to try zapping the PRAM. Since I got no 'chime'. Then I figured I would try holding down the 'option' key to boot from an external drive and was just about to put my finger on the OPTION key, I heard the chime. I was so shocked I just watched it, but nothing else happened.
So I turned it off, waited a minute, then started it and pushed the Option key. Nothing.
I was going to boot from a 10.4 CD - I managed to open the CD Drive, dropped the CD in it, hit the start button and pushed the C key. Nothing.
Any suggestions?

Your Mac is getting to the age where the PRAM batteries die.
Check out things in Texas Mac Man's Battery, PRAM, PMU tutorial on the subject. His tutorial is a little dated (don't believe it even mentions G5's) but the info in it, except SMU not being included, still applies. The SMU link is for a late G5 Tower. Early G5's use PMU reset, as shown in the tutorial. The battery for late G5 + G5 iMacs and earlier iMacs, Mac Minis and Intel Tower Macs is this one.
Also, when you try to boot from the CD, hold the c key down till something shows up. It may take awhile. If you get there, try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk.
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