Quicksilver 800mhz stopped booting after unplugging IDE ribbon

Hello all,
I just purchased a used Quicksilver D. Processor 800 machine which came preloaded with a very working OS X 10.3.9. Upon my receiving this system, I noticed it was extremely dusty, dirty, and had a few small spots of oxidation/rust on the metal case. So this past week I went through and actually dismantled the entire system, taking great care to clean everything thoroughly.
Upon putting the system back together I noticed that when I pressed the power button, it did not power up. In fact no fans spun up. No drives spun up, the power light even was lit until I released the power button. The red-light on the motherboard flashed once very quickly. Then I remembered back to what a friend told me is that after every hardware change I should press the CUDA button on the mobo beside the battery. I did that while pressing the power button and after a time or two of that, the system worked great. It booted right up and went right into OSX.
However, I decided to swap out DVD-RW drives because I was having problems burning using an IOmagic one. I figured by putting the factory DVD-RW superdrive back in, that would sove the problem. By this point the G4 had been working great for several days without an issue. However when I opened the case and unplugged the IDE & power cables from the DVD drive, then remembered I wanted to get back into OSX. But when i hit power, the same symptoms as above reappeared. No fans or drives spun up. The light on the power button went out as soon as I released the power button.
I figured I needed to press the CUDA button again. However no amount of pressing/holding/pressing with holding the power button etc have changed this. All I did was unplug an ide and power cable, and it caused this?! I've made sure that there are no items grounding out. All of the jumpers are set correctly. I even removed the ram, CPU, AGP card to make sure they were seated properly. None of these have solved my issue.
I'm tossing this out there to the OSX/mac expert communiitity.

bawalker:
You might try a deeper reset of the logic board:
Disconnect everything from the back of the Mac except the power cord.
Touch a metal slot cover on the back of the case as a static discharge precaution.
Unplug the power cord from the back of the Mac and open the side door.
Remove the battery.
Depress and hold the PMU button for a five count.
Depress and hold the power button on the front of the case for a five count.
Let the Mac sit for a half hour or so to insure that its capacitors fully discharge.
Reinsert the battery and close up the case.
Connect the keyboard, mouse and monitor only, then attempt to boot normally.
Don't press down on the PMU button more than once between startup attempts. Apple says that doing so can cause the PMU to stop responding and can cause a quick battery drain should it do so. Here's a link to some info on the reset:
Resetting the PMU
Gary
1GHz DP G4 Quicksilver 2002, 400MHz B&W rev.2 G3, Mac SE30   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   5G iPod, Epson 2200 & R300 & LW Select 360 Printers, Epson 3200 Scanner

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