Mac Pro doesn't drive Cinema Display at startup

Config: Mac Pro 2.66GHz 2006 with ATI Radeon Graphics Card, Apple Cinema Display 23".
Recently at startup I've had intermittent problems with lighting up the ACD. Sometimes restarting worked. This started immediately following an especially rough Tasman Sea crossing from New Zealand to New Caledonia - we have some severe underwing slams aboard our 52-ft catamaran.
I removed the ATI Radeon, cleaned all the contacts, then reseated the card. Voila - graphics again! A few days later I'm again seeing no graphics at startup.
The ACD seems to be 100%, I am driving it as I write with my MacBook Pro. ACD also works with Apple TV.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated - we are in a remote area of New Caledonia, Ile des Pins, where there are no Apple service options.

Uh-oh. I returned from a trip to find my Mac did not chime on powering up the other day. Just now it didn't wake from sleep after dinner. It finally restarted after I held the power button for a while, but again no chime, although I do have the white apple/grey screen that you're talking about.
It's not looking good.
Verify Disk found no issues. I was kind of hoping it was from the recent update with the Mac App Store, somethign that would be fixed with the next update.
Looks like it could be a hardware issue even though this thing is just 21 months old.

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