Monitor Not Leaving Powersave Mode on Boot

[IncendiaryLemon]

System is
PIV 1.7ghz
Asus P4B533-VM Bios version 1005
512 pc2700 (although it says I only have 504 installed right now)
WindowsXP SP1
Geforce 3 Ti200 (Hercules)
Audigy

The power-supply is of unknown make/manufacture/wattage/quality. It came from a Sony consumer machine that I scrapped for parts.

When I boot my monitor is staying in power save mode. I've swapped in and out the soundcard, the video card (and used the motherboard integrated one), the modem, and the memory.

I assumed it had something then to do with the motherboard. The asus manual I have is for the ATX version of the board and I can't find the cmos clear. I switched it to jumpered mode and tried to throw the overclocking safe guards. That worked. It cleared cmos for me. The motherboard proceeded to tell me I had installed a new cpu and it let me into the system (albeit at a 66mhz external clock.)

I shutdown and put my modem back in.

Back to the old problem, removed the modem, problem still there. So I toggled the overclock settings again which managed to work.

So question - what the deuce is going on? Where is the cmos clear? What does it look like?

Important to note that i've also been starting and shutting down with a jumper cap since the power switch is broken.

 

[minendo]

CMOS clear is a jumper usually located by the CMOS battery. You simply pull it off, move it over one pin. Take it off and put it back in the original postion. Now power on the computer and CMOS is clear.

 

[IncendiaryLemon]

Thats what I'm use to but this board (and who the hell approved this design change) doesn't use the pin/jumper cap. In lieu of that its two solder points that your suppose to short together.