Help!! my g4 is dying.......

the most bizarre thing happened this morning.
got home from apple store last night with a brand new end of line xeon octocore mac pro. went to bed. got up this morning and started using my aging g4 867mhz single processor on the internet and it suddenly made a slight "pop" noise and both monitors turned off. the power light and fans stayed on, but the restart button didnt work so i powered down by holding in the power button.
restarted. no "on" noise, but fans spun up and power light came on. monitors display "no signal" message. immediately i thought my graphics card (an ati radeon dual monitor card) had died....it has been acting up for a while now (sometimes when i boot up there will be vertical stripes down the screen and strange pixels around the cursor. a reboot/ several reboots usually sort it out.
however, i tried logging into the mac from my networked mac mini downstairs with no luck. does this mean it's something more serious?
the main system hard drive was replaced a couple of years ago, and has shown no suspicious behaviour. tried disconnecting all preipherals (except mouse and keyboard) with no joy.
i need to get some stuff off this mac, and would ideally like to get it up & running again in case i want to transfer old tunes from cubase 5.1/ halion sampler/ various third party pluginsd/os9 into logic studio...by bouncing down the parts as audio)
am thinking of doing the following later:
disconnect mouse/ keyboard & restart
try to boot from original cd
reseat agp
reseat memory
check for light on motherboard - is there one on a g4?
reset button on motherboard - any ideas where it is anyone?
replace clock battery?
remove hard drives and put in external usb enclosures, then connect them to another machine.
anything i've missed?
does this problem ring any bells with anyone?
power light on, fans on, no response from keyboard (eg: eject cd), no response from restart button.
was looking forward to messing with my new mac, but now i'm going to be cursing this one instead!

Hi-
The poor ol' QS just didn't want to let you down, and has been struggling on to please you.
After "sensing" the replacements arrival, the machine knew that the chance to pass on had come.......
OK, disconnect everything but one monitor, the keyboard and mouse before going any further.
Try a boot. If a no go, try the monitor in the other graphics port.
If that doesn't work, repeat with the other monitor.
The next step would be trying to boot to the OS Install disc.
If still a no go, try the PMU reset.
From there, if still no boot, reseat everything, repeat the above steps.
remove hard drives and put in external usb enclosures, then connect them to another machine.
Could try a Firewire Target Disk Mode transfer. But, that assumes some amount of video, and the ability to boot.
was looking forward to messing with my new mac, but now i'm going to be cursing this one instead!
Now, now... Be nice to the old friend that served you so well!

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