Powermac G5 dual 2.5GHz won't boot

Hi,
I've recently started having issues with my dual 2.5GHz G5 Powermac. When I switch it on I can hear the drives start up and data being read from them. But there's never any chime and the screen stays black. The drives stay quiet (spinning but no data being read). After a minute or two the fans ramp up to full speed.
If I leave it off for a while (eg. overnight) it resolves itself somehow and boots up without any issues. Once it's booted up there are no issues at all and it will run fine for weeks and days, until it needs to be rebooted again. I just put it to sleep when I'm not using it and it wakes up fine.
I've tried the following without any success:
- unplugging all peripherals (usb + firewire etc)
- reseating the ram
- swapping out the ram
- trying to boot into open firmware (it won't get that far)
- resetting the pmu with the button on the motherboard
- installed the latest updates to os x
- reseated the graphics card
- replaced the battery on the motherboard with a brand new one
This started roundabout the time I upgraded to 10.5.5 though that could be a coincidence. I also cleaned dust from the inside of the machine at that time as well (including off the graphics card fan and heatsink which was getting clogged up). So, that may have caused it. But again it could just be a coincidence.
Does anyone have any suggestions? All fans and both fans spin up, so I don't think it's the PSU, but I could be wrong. My only thought at the moment is a possible problem with one of the drives. So, I could try installing to a firewire drive and booting from that, but given that I can't even get into openfirmare, I'm not confident in that working. Similarly I don't have much hope of it booting from CD.
Any suggestions or help would be very much appreciated
Phil

Hi Phil Brayshaw-
What does the little white power light do? This should be helpful: About the Power Mac G5 (Late 2005) diagnostic LEDs
Although it sounds to me like you have tried most of the troubleshooting steps, this document is a good overall reference to address this particular problem: Power Mac G5: What to do if you see black, white, or no video at start up
Have you tried another monitor and/or double-checked your cable and its connections? If everything else is working as expected that would certainly be a major suspect.
Luck-
-DP

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If somebody could help me out here, i would be very happy indeed.
Thx a lot.
Mugge

This depends on which model of dual 2.5 you have. The dual processor 2.5 has PCI slots. The dual core dual processor 2.5 (quad) has PCI-Express slots. Both G5 models use SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives so you do need a controller card to attach your ATA drives.
Apple doesn't support mounting more than two hard drives internally in the G5s so it might be easier to just get firewire cases for your hard drives and make them all external.

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