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monitor at idle during system startup - can't run BIOS

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Ebert

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first of all, computer specs:
Mobo: Asus P2B-F with Intel Celeron 366MHz
Video Card: Viper V330
Monitor: Viewsonic 17" A70
RAM: 192mb (dont know brand)
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Live
HD: Seagate ST36421A(master) - 6.4Gb
Western Digital WD800JB - 80Gb
OS: Windows XP Pro

Tried installing the WD800JB hard drive yesterday, but ran into nothing but problems. My system hangs after checking the physical memory (POST?) and BIOS does not automatically detect the new drive. I have tried setting as master and slave. I come to conclusion(guess) my BIOS is outdated and there is a Gb limit.

This morning I tried different jumper settings with no success so I put back the Seagate as master so I can have a working computer. Turn on the computer and my monitor has the yellow light on(as opposed to green) like it was in idle. I can't see BIOS or any of that. Once the Windows XP boot screen is on "welcome" or whatever, the monitor comes back to life. And also the monitor flickers with mouse movement, it jumps vertically up and down a milimeter. Was running 1152x864 so I changed resolution down to 1024x768 and it fixed the problem. Now when I try going back to 1152x864 there's a msg from monitor saying out of frequency range. Any idea what happened?

To fix my hard drive problem, I have Western Digital's Data Lifeguard for DOS on floppy so hopefully that will send the right signal to my BIOS and detect the drive. Problem is I can't see DOS because the monitor is acting as if it is in idle.

Any help is appreciated. And yes, definitely need a system upgrade.
 
For jumpers, if that is the only drive on that cable, then take off all jumpers. Then, boot up and go into BIOS and autodetect etc. But it sounds like your monitor is fvcked up! I had an older IBM 15'' that did the same thing, and eventually died. So yeah, try a different monitor.
 
My monitor was fine before I tried installing the new WD drive this morning. I got the monitor working fine in windows with the high resolution, but I'm still unable to see the system startup. My monitor is acting as if its on idle. Once the windows boot screen is shown the monitor comes on, like there's a switch.
 
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