Cyclone III Programs, Doesn't Boot

I have no response because you haven't added anything to this thread. I was hoping that you would have a more in-depth insight to a possible problem outside of basic troubleshooting steps.

Yes, it is possible for someone to take an FPGA off of a good working board and put it on a non working board. However, there is a lot of room for error in there. During removal, we could wreck the FPGA. During the placement of the known working one, we could wreck the FPGA. Even if we didn't wreck the FPGA, we could still have issues with BGA balls not soldered. The many possible errors during the removal and replacement make this troubleshooting step very questionable and if the board still didn't work, I would still be questioning the FPGA.

Are there particular signals that make it possible for Quartus to say it programmed successfully but will not run?