Quicksilver shuts down after startup chime

Hello,
I got an old Quicksilver 2002 (933) which won't boot : it shuts down 3 or 4 seconds after the startup chime. What's wrong ?
Thanks

Thank you for your answer, but it didn't work.
I forgot something important in my first post : the story of this Quicksilver
So yes, I just acquire this Mac, didn't work at all. It was missing a screw on the CPU card. After adding the screw, the PM booted into my Tiger DVD. I shut down the PM to close it correctly. It didn't boot anymore for this time.
I tried PRAM reset, motherboard reset. I've taken apart all I could (modem, graphic card, hard drive, ...), I've replaced the PSU, but nothing. I noticed that when I try to boot without RAM, the powermac makes one beep (no RAM installed) but don't shut down after that ! So I tried with 2 different RAM modules on every RAM slot, but it didn't work. (each RAM module is PC133 and works fine on my iMac G3 DV SE).
I think the motherboard or the CPU is screw up, but which one ? Maybe I forgot one thing to make it work ?
Cheers, Aurélien
(sorry if my English is a bit bad, but I hope it will be understandable

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