No power to hard drive and DVD player

I got a G4 1.67ghz PowerBook of eBay. It powers on with out any problems and goes to the flashing question mark. So I put in a new known good hard drive and tried putting in the 10.5 install disk but the DVD player wouldn't take it. So I hooked an external DVD player and restarted. When I got to Disk Utility it only shows the external player. No hard drive and no internal DVD player. I can't hear the hard drive spinning in the PowerBook.
What would cause the PowerBook to work perfectly otherwise but no power getting to the hard drive and internal DVD player?

I found out what the problem was! I put the hard drive into an external enclosure to see if Disk Utility would see it. when I did that the DVD drive showed up in Disk Utility. So I looked at the hard drive and found it had a jumper on it setting it for Cable Select. I pulled off the jumper and the hard drive showed up in Disk Utility! Why having the jumper on it would make both the hard drive and the DVD drive not show up in Disk Utility I have no idea.

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