PCI card/bus problem in a PM9600/233

I recently got a Firewire card and put it into the 6th PCI slot on my PM9600. Initially, everything worked all right. A couple days later on a boot I noticed one of my USB pci cards wasn't working. Then it started working, but the second USB pci card did not. My original ixmicro 8mb video card also is not working. The situation seems to have restabilized in that the three A bus pci slots are working all right and the three B bus pci slots are not. The pci slots are filled as follows, top to bottom order:
ATI Rage Pro 128 (works)
USB card (works)
A-card ATA card (works)
ixMicro video card (dead)
USB card (dead)
Firewire card (dead)
I've tried reseating the cards; run DiskWarrior; rebooted into 8.6 and 9.1; cleaned the dust out; checked (but not replaced) the battery. No effect.
Whenever a card isn't working,ASP shows nothing connected on that card's pci bus slots.
Any ideas or suggestions, please?

Thanks, guys. Good ideas. I got it sort of working again, but I am not certain what I did. I did remove the ixmicro video card from Slot 4 and moved the Slot 5 USB card into Slot 4, leaving Slot 5 vacant. I reseated the firewire Slot 6 card. I had to push the USB card so hard to get it to seat, I now wonder if I fully pushed it in before. Query: If that USB card was NOT fully seated before, would that prevent the WHOLE lower bus from operating?
The chip set on both my no-name USB cards is Vendow 1095, whoever that is. I forgot to look at the card when I was reseating it.
I have the 9600 in a temporary location at the moment pending a reorganization of its room; however, I ordinarily have two monitors running on it, so I'll need to put the second video card back in. However, for the moment it may remain out.
It looks as if the problems might have been 1) I didn't seat the one card properly and it killed the lower pci set; or 2) the video, usb, and firewire cards exceeded the power requirements of the lower bus. What do you think?
Isn't the power supply to the two pci buses, top 3 and bottom 3, a separate thing?

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