New hard drive...wont boot from cd

hello,
i just installed a new hard drive. when i powered on and tried to eject the cd bay, it would not. i opened it via paper clip, installed cd and restarted holding "c" but it would not boot from cd. power button is pulsing and fans accelerated, so i powered off. 2 x 1 gig of ram in top two slots. cd drive light does not flash when holding c button.
any help would be great.
thanks

Have you done a PRAM reset, CMDOption+pr...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
Does it boot into Open Firmware with CMDOption+of ?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42642
reset-nvram (press Enter)
set-defaults (press Enter)
reset-all (press Enter)
How to reset the SMU on a Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) or Power Mac G5 (Late 2005) ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1436
Earlier G3, G4, G5 models...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939

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