[realitytripz]

Hi everyone, this is my first time here and yes I'm a beginner. I have a comp that I built from scratch about 3 years ago and have done a few upgrades to it every now and then. (Vid-card, MB,processor.) Well, just recently I sold my comp to my little brother and it continued running solid for a while. Later on he told me it stopped working so I checked it out, and it seemed that the monitor wasnt getting a signal from the vid-card during start up, it would just stay in standby (yellow light). So the first thing I checked was the monitor, so I hooked the comp to my 2nd brothers monitor, same thing happened.

So, I bought a brand new MB for the heck of it needed a new one anyway as a ram slot was faulty on the old one. When I installed the new MB, and did a fresh install of windows XP something changed. Now, windows will launch correctly only when I do a hard reboot. If I turn the computer on and go through windows and do a restart the monitor will not get a signal, same as if I go through windows and select shutdown. If I do that I have to turn the computer on, turn it off, turn it on again to get the monitor to catch the signal. I have no way of checking the vid-card because it is AGP, and my new comp doesnt have that slot and my 2nd brothers computer is currently getting BSOD =
0x0000007B. Back to my original problem though, I installed a new AGP card I bought for my 2nd brother's comp into the comp in question and the monitor didnt get a signal from that card either. This is driving me insane, if it isnt the power supply, vid card, monitor what could it be?? Please help me, thanks in advance =)

PS: comp stats are: Windows XP Home ed. PCCHIPS M848A mother-board, AMD Athlon XP 3000, Generic Dell flatscreen monitor( nothing special), Thermaltake TR2-430W power supply, ATI Radeon 9800 XT.

[spdabbs]

Could it possibly be a BIOS setting, either to do with initial display or power saving? (Long shot, but worth a looksie)

[realitytripz]

Alrighty, thanks! I'll check it out. I'm not really to familiar with everything in the BIOS yet, but I will figure it out. Thanks again. =)

[realitytripz]

Well I have no way of checking the radeon 9800XT because my new comp doesn't have an AGP slot and my 2nd brothers computer's power supply won't be able to handle it. So I took the agp Geforce card out of my 2nd brothers comp and put it into the problem comp and it did the same thing, so I'm gonna assume there is nothing wrong with the radeon, and there isn't anything wrong with the geforce because I stuck it back into my 2nd brothers computer and it worked fine. I looked at the BIOS and everything seemed standard default (as far as I know).

I just don't understand why this is happeneing could it be something in the BIOS that I am missing??? Should I try flashing the BIOS? Has anyone else ever had this problem? Its so annoying because I can get the monitor to receieve the signal and windows launches correctly and everything but when I go through windows to restart, the monitor doesnt recieve the singal again or if I shutdown I have to turn the comp on then manually turn it off then turn it on again for the monitor to recieve the signal. The motherboard is brand new but this same problem started on the original MB too. Knowing my luck it is probably something really simple that I'm over looking and I would prefer to figure it out first before I have to resort to bringing it somewhere. So if anyone has any ideas about what is going on, please help me! Thanks in advance!