Need serious help building G4 from spare parts.

I got a free Powermac G4 Shell. It is the AGP Graphics Sawtooth (400mhz). I salvaged 3 hardrives, 4 128mb Ram Sticks, and Video Card from an old PC (all of which are in working condition.) I have two of the hard drives connected, and everything else installed, but when I fire it up the monitor just displays the "monitor is working" screen. You can hear the fans kicking on, and the hard drives activating, but the small light by the power button doesn't come on (however a faint orange light on the CD Drive comes on) I know that the hard drives have a PC Operating system on them. Should I just drop the Mac OS into the tray after start up? I am lost! Please help! Any suggestion and tips are appreciated.

Here's the spec sheet on the PMG4 AGP 400MHz. http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermacg4/stats/powermac_g4_400agp.html
The hard drives should probably not be a problem. The RAM and video card could be a problem. When the Mac starts the boot process are any bongs heard, If 3 bongs, there's a RAM problem.
What OS CD do you have? The one that came with the Mac? Or a retail (black with silver X) OS X CD/DVD? A gray installer from another model Mac won't work.
Since there is no Mac OS on the hard drive(s), put the OS CD/DVD in the tray & depress the "c" key at startup. If the Mac boots to the installer (even without video), you will know that there is a chance that you can get it to operate.
Post back with answers & progress.
 Cheers, Tom
Do you have one HD jumpered Master & the other jumpered Slave?
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