IBook G3 does not power up

Hi, I know this is an old case but I think my situation is a bit special.
I have an old iBook G3 800 MHz, dual-usb, 32 MB VRAM, 128 MB RAM + 256 MB RAM and the logic board was replaced in 2003 after problems with the awakening from suspend mode.
Everything has been working fine for years since yesterday when I had the fracking idea of trying Ubuntu Linux 8.04 live-cd (downloaded from: http://fileserver.uniroma1.it/ubuntu-releases/hardy/)
I restarted my Tiger and held down the C key in order to boot from CD.
The linux boot loader came up and I typed "live" to start loading the un-invasive linux system.
After about a minute the boot process stopped with just a blank screen, and since there was no sound from the cd anymore I dediced to hard reset the iBook keeping pressed the power button.
It turned off without problems, as usual, the big problem is that now it doesn't turn on anymore !!!
I tried everything I could, I left the iBook without battery and AC for all the night, reset the PRAM and PMU but nothing succeeded.
I even removed the Airport and the 256 MB ram expansion.
Even the caps-lock and num-lock don't turn on, there is no sound at all when I press the power button, and the monitor is always black; it's compleatly dead !
The only thing I noticed is that if I reset the PMU with the battery inserted and the AC adapter connected, the connector light from red (charging) becomes green for about 5 sec.
Now, I know linux is evil and I shouldn't have tried it, but I really don't understand how a software could damage the hardware this way !
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

I already tried everything described there.
Consider that since the iBook doesn't event turn on, the only thing I'm sure I really did is resetting the PRAM.
In any case, I could have inserted in my cdrom every type of data, but it's absolutely scaring the fact that I broke the hardware with a software !
I've never seen anything like this !

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