New startup problem, what do you think of this?

iMac G5, 20" ALS 2.0.
Had a video issue so I've had the back off of it for a few days to do some troubleshooting. When I work in the computer, I alway keep the AC inplugged. Today, after re-setting the RAM, I plugged it in to test it (still with the back off) and before I could push the reset button on the logic board, the system booted itself. hmm. I went ahead and let it boot up and then walked away for a few munites and I could hear it re-boot itself again-so far it's re-booted itself 5-6 times in 1/2 hour.
Previousy I was having intermittend kernel panics but this is something weird. I guess I should clean the contacts on the re-set button, maybe it's stuck or something.
Pretty weird, I'd say.
JB

Sheesh, I let one of my buddies take it home over the weekend to see if he wanted to buy it from me for his kids. Of course it ran great while he was here looking at it-got a call that it kernel paniced 4x in an hour so I picked it up from him. Of course in that hour he add 4 new users and password complete with parental blocker so I was a real pain getting through all of that.
I guess resetting the PMU worked, but oddly when I held the power button then plugged in the AC, it botted up? Usually when you hold the button in, it doesn't do that until you release it? Can't believe a switch would have failed in that short of time.
Hmm.
JB

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