Ibook clamshell almost starting up

Recently, i was in the process of replacing my optical drive in my graphite clamshell. I did someting extreamly stupid, i forgot to take the battery out of the computer while i was working on it. When i was removing the optical drive the metal side of it toutched the board right below the DC in board. I immediately saw a small spark come from the board. I tested to see if the computer would start up. The computer's DC in board did light up when i pluged in the cable, and the light did turn orange to show that the battery was not fully charged. To my horror, as i pressed the power button, nothing at all happened. While looking for a solution i toutched the hard drive and found that it was extremly hot. Hoping that the only thing damaged was my HDD i ordered a new one. I installed the new HDD and put the computer back together. Once again i tried to power up the clamshell, and to my suprise i could hear the HDD spinning. The display did not light up. After about 3 seconds, the hard drive shut off. I continued to try to turn it on and had the same results each time. I really like this computer, it is the 466 Firewire graphite model with DVD, and i feel it is worth saving. I tried reseting the PMU, it didnt help. I am afraid it may be a logic board problem. If anyone has any ideas PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!
ibook G4,clamshell, imac G3 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

To my horror, as i pressed the power button, nothing at all happened. While looking for a solution i toutched the hard drive and found that it was extremly hot. Hoping that the only thing damaged was my HDD i ordered a new one
Unfortunately I think you jumped the gun with replacing the hard drive ...even with a bad drive you would still be able to get into open firmware and perform some other diagnostics.
Your mother board is most likely toast ...if you can find another (even the 366 w/firewire) on ebay for a reasonable price you may be able to get things going again.
Sorry
Macbook 1.8-) Mac OS X (10.4.8) Week 38 base model w/1G Ram

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