No power up after ssd install

Was upgrading an old 2007 MBP 3.1 with and SSD purchased from OWC. Followed all the steps, very careful etc etc
no power up after done
before I start tearing everything apart again, anybody have any suggestions?
thanks

Hi Guys,
Yes done all the above,and more checks, seems 10.5.7 is not as user friendly as earlier versions..takes me back to OS 8..sigh.....
Cheers for the advice...I'll just put up with the quirky way this OS boots. now back to work.
TomK7

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SATA connector 1 (where by default the optical drive is attached to):
here i placed the adapter cage from hardwrk (Link) and IN there i placed the old HDD, which was attached to SATA 2 before setting the MacBook up for SSD
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diskutil list
/dev/disk0
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Mac OS X                59.6 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *128.0 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                127.8 GB   disk1s2
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116858432    1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
118127968 858645167
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976773167          1         Sec GPT header
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250068992        655
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250069679          1         Sec GPT header
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Disk: /dev/disk0              geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting       Ending
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1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 976773167] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0 0   0 -    0 0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0 0   0 -    0 0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0 0   0 -    0 0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
sudo fdisk /dev/disk1
Disk: /dev/disk1              geometry: 15566/255/63 [250069680 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
*2: 07   25 159   7 - 1023 254 63 [ 411648 - 249657344] HPFS/QNX/AUX
3: 00    0 0   0 -    0 0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0 0   0 -    0 0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
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