Looking for help, strange powermac issues

I have a apple powermac g5.
When I power the unit on, there is no chime and the fans turn on like full blast. The unit does boot into MAC OS but freezes at the logon aas soon as you move the mouse. The motherboard is brand new and was replaced by a mac tech when we had one here at our shop. When I try and boot to a CD by holding C I get this display.
Apple Powermac 7, 2 5. 1.5f0 BootROM Built on 02/16/04 at 13:01:10
Welcome to open firmware, the system time and date 21:21:07 01/02/1904
to continue booting, type "mac-boot" and press return
to shut down, type "shut-down" and press return
release keys to continue.
The unit also doesnt always open/eject a disc it is actually really hard to get to open but even once I do get it to open it wont boot to a disc.
The other wierd thing is certain monitors I hook up to it while plugged in even if I power the unit off, the white light in the front stays on and if I unplugg it then the light goes out. As soon as I plug the monitor back it the computer turns on by itself. Not all the monitors I have here do this.
Any advice would be great, I am not currently certified but Im helping the one who is at our shop, we are a apple certified service center at a compusa, and we have a gsx login. Just trying to see if anyone might know what issue could be causing all this.

you need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or press the restart button.Then it has it in chineese or something.
You are having a kernel panic on startup:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107061
The fans will blast during a panic, or other operational error so as to protect the CPU's from overheating. As well, a CPU caught in a kernel trap will be running full power, which prompts the appropriate cooling response.
Since the motherboard was replaced, unless the machine has been thermal calibrated, the machine will blast the fans. Has thermal calibration been performed?
Will the machine do a safe mode boot (hold shift key on startup)?
Additional resources:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464

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