Originally Posted by Cressida

Hi guys! I bet you the power cable's bad on the monitor, durkinjt . No, but really, you should see something happening there even before you get to the BIOS. We must be missing something obvious in the setup. I hope nothing broke with that bad cable either.

Is the monitor connected to the blue (analog) VGA port? There's also a white (digital) port you can use, if your monitor has a digital DVI input (uses a different cable as well).

Maybe you can try a "Clear CMOS" to reset the BIOS (it's described in the mobo manual, page 21). Can't hurt, even if it's not what we're looking for.