G5 will not boot up, KP's got me good!

Hello to all, I am ready to call it quits. Pulling out the few hairs I have left.
The Problem: Everything was fine until I decided to upgrade my hard disk. Purchased a Seagate 500GB model ST3500320AS SATA drive. I decided to do a clean
install, pulled out original drive, and installed new drive. Tried to boot from
OS X DVD, however, it crashes when you click on the install icon, if I try to
do a hardware test it will display "restart" or "shut down". Can't go into safe mode, verbose mode, tried all the resets. Nothing but pk's! Now my original drive is not working either, those pesky pk's. I purchased Techtool Pro to try to identify and solve the problem. Everything checked out O.K. except the original drive is not been recognized. I think burial services are in order! That is O.K. I just need to get the new disk going.
This is the first portion of the pk it displays as I try to install OS.
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0X300 - Data access DAR=0X0000000000000000 PC=0X000000003239DF94
Latest crash infor for cpu 0:
(Exception state (sv=0322FF500)etc.
Any help whatosoever is greatly appreciated, thanks.

Barring a bad drive, and that is entirely possible, the only other thing I would suggest is to start over again. Remove and reinstall the drive...maybe the cable isn't seated properly. Reformat the drive and try to install again.
I don't think Tech Tool Pro is going to do any good....at this point.
Like was mentioned earlier, make sure you format the drive first.
Thinking more...is there a chance you may have jarred your video card or the ram while changing the hard drive? It won't hurt to reseat everything.
Message was edited by: Mike Sombrio

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    0xffffff80602db870 : 0xffffff801a4b7b95
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    0xffffff80602dbbd0 : 0xffffff7f9ba73554
    0xffffff80602dbc00 : 0xffffff7f9aa8d470
    0xffffff80602dbc40 : 0xffffff7f9aa8d3df
    0xffffff80602dbc60 : 0xffffff7f9aa926ec
    0xffffff80602dbcf0 : 0xffffff7f9aa8af20
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    0xffffff80602dbd70 : 0xffffff801a833b9b
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    0xffffff80602dbe80 : 0xffffff801a420abd
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