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M5126 Little Signs Of Life, Help needed

I recently inherited an M5126 Macintosh Portable with the modem and ram expansion card, hard disk and floppy drive. I tore down the device before powering on and of course had to clean up the capacitor electrolyte and replace them. During the recap some pads became fragile so I made a few bodges that came out successfully. After I did a board wash, let it dry and upon powering on with a new battery and working recapped power supply all I got was a speaker crackle. The voltage regulator is working and spitting out 5.05-5.26 volts when I have everything connected to benchtop power supply. I also tried reset methods with the reset and interrupt buttons and I was able to get a short lived chime once, but haven’t since. Any ideas or help?
 
You may want to check the powered on +5V which is at a few points on the board but the main source is at Q11, which has the always on +5V and /SYS_PWR as inputs and the powered on +5V as an output. The powered on +5V is the large tab. If /SYS_PWR is stuck high then the Power Manager probably isn't turning on the system.
If that is working properly and you get a stable +5V output out of there, then the system is at least trying to turn on and you may need to look at what the CPU is trying to do.
 
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