Ibook abruptly lost power and will not power on

I have a G4 Ibook. I have had it since Jan 06. I just got it back from having the optical drive replaced since it quit last April. All was working fine for just less than a day when it abruptly lost power and will not power on at all. The company did the repairs has trouble shot try to power it up and is arranging for us to ship it back. Any ideas of what it could be, and the likely hood it is related to the upgrade vs. a fluke occurrence that I will have to pay additional money to fix?
CG

It's hard to say for sure, but if the iBook powered up perfectly before the repair and didn't power up after the repair, you could argue that the upgrade caused the problem and it shouldn't be extra for them to fix it. I'm guessing, but the power input and the battery are in the vicinity of the drive, and it seems likely that something wasn't properly assembled or got damaged and that is what led to the failure. I wouldn't expect an independently occurring fluke.
Good luck!

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