Xserve G4 Won't Boot Off Tiger CD; Other OSXS G4 Boot Drive

The CD part is probably because the optical drive is bad, but I installed Tiger server onto a known-good drive module and it will boot another Xserve, but not the one with the bad optical. It will, however, boot off of a drive with Panther Server. I can also not boot the bad Xserve with a boot drive from another Xserve of the same model.
Any ideas?

Apparently, you can run a G4 Xserve without a video card under Server 10.3; you can't run it without one under 10.4... Threw a video card in and it booted just fine. I had no idea that it wouldn't boot without it!
Why was there no video? The other server in the office is a G5 Xserve which was built sans video. The guy that set it up couldn't do it headless so he pulled the card from a G4 Xserve and never put it back.

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