new mobo, blank monitor???

[shocksyde]

ok, here's the problem. i turn on the power for the computer and it lights up and everyhing, but when i turn my monitor on, it goes directly into sleep mode after a couple seconds, so i'm getting no display...any ideas?

shocksyde

[catcow]

Try turning the power management features off in Windows and if you still get the problem turn them off in the BIOS too.

[shocksyde]

i cant even get to windows or the bios setup cause i cant see anything

[emcron]

I dont know if you already have but since this is a new mobo, just go throught the basic. Check all your setting (jumpers if any) take the ram out and put it back in chen the video card, etc.

[shocksyde]

ok got the monitor working (i would tell you what i did wrong but god **** it's embarrassing!). however, now the HD and cd rom arent working...they both have power cause the lights come on, but when i start up and the computer asks for a book disk (a cd), i cant open the cd rom drive...i dont know if it's a problem with the drive or the board...

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[orkboss]

Well then use your Windows floppy boot disk.

[shocksyde]

got the cd rom and hd working, and it loads windows and everthing, but when the icons and desktop should pop up, it's a blank screen....it'll run in safe mode, but not in normal mode, and this all happened after i put my modem in. could my modem cause this?

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[shocksyde]

oookay, new problem...now when i bott up it says "ivalid system disk", and there arent any disks in any of the drives, whats up with that? i put my windows 98 cd in there and it still says the same thing, and i cant get rid of it!!! AHHHHHHH!!! this is getting
annoying!!!

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