built a new comp but monitor not showing anything...

[cookies2100]

I built my new computer tonight, which is cool, everything turns on, fan on the vid card is spinning, everything is wonderful...except my monitor only shows the self-test. When I turn the computer on, the monitor goes black for a second then goes back to the self test =((

anyone have any ideas?

 

[jacksondorado]

I just wanted to post my resolution that worked for me with this same problem.

It turned out that the RAM I was using was causing the boot failure. Although I was told at Fry's that PC2100 RAM would work, I had to get PC2700 to get the BIOS screen. I'm just waiting to install Windows. Maybe soon, I'll switch to Linux though...