LED, Chime, Fan... and that's it! Mini will not boot.

Greetings,
My Mini (stats below) will not boot. The LED lights, the chime sounds, and the fan turns on. However, the HD does not spin and it won't take a DVD.
I have reset PRAM/VRAM through the keyboard sequence and through Open Firmware. I have also reset the PMU. I have swapped RAM chips and tried a different monitor. Now the keyboard seems to be totally unresponsive to any commands. I can not boot to any mode. It just sits there. It is out of warranty.
This all started with a kernal panic. I then ran disk utility and repaired the HDD. Each further step after that seemed to do more harm than good.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dan
G4 Mac Mini 1.42GHz 1GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Fixed. After disassembling it again, I found the antenna wire disconnected. I had to reroute the antenna wire as it seems that each time I'd put the case back together, it would pull off.
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