Internal Drives Disappear & Boot Problems

I have a Quad Core, I had 4 drives in it. All 500 Gig Maxtor Drives.
Anytime the computer would lock up and be force reset stuff would act funny on one of the drives, it finally failed mechanically.
Shortly after another drive had errors that couldn't be resolved and the drive had to be reformatted, it was being used as a time machine drive.
I received a replacement drive from Maxtor and it wouldn't function in the machine. After dozens of tries I got it to work so I could initialize it.
I am not able to put 3 drives in the machine.
Anytime I do I just get a white screen - no apple, no circle loading pattern.
When I get the white screen the only key-sequence that's accepted is the PRAM Zap COMMAND/OPTION/P/R. No other key sequence is able to be used....no safe boot, so single user, no option boot, etc.
All of the drives work fine when connected to any computer using a USB cable/power adapter that's distributed by Other World Computing.
At this time I can only use 2 drives inside the machine at one time.
Are there any tests or diagnostics I can run to learn if there is any kind of ATA controller board or logic board?
Please share any similar problems or learned solutions.

Apple Hardware Test
TechTool Deluxe or Pro
Disk Warrior
Intech Speedtools
SuperDuper
Onyx or Leopard Cache Cleaner
are some of the tools I use to maintain system and drives.
I have had 4 x MaxLine Pro 500GB units from OWC
I would pick up 4 x WD Caviar 640 $80 from OWC at this point.
Are you sure that you are repairing and dealing with directory corruption and corrupt files and journal when this happens? ie, not boot from the drive but from a backup or emergency?
Did you ever use Partition to setup new single partition and do a zero-all or test for bad sectors?
Reset SMC?
Sounds more like it could be logicboard but only AHT and AppleCare can fully determine that.
A force restart is sure to damage the directory, volume information block, cache folders, and journaling.
The reason I replaced the MaxLines is they tend to run warmer, never below 40º even with SmcFanControl while WD drives, even Raptors are always in 28º winter and 35º summer.

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