video not always powering up

[adam_tomlinson]

I was wondering if any of you could help me, when i turn my pc on the moniter only gets a signal about 40% of the time and i have to keep resetting till it does My first thoughts were my generic power supply was crap, so i fitted a new super flower 420w today but no luck. I have hardly anything running off it, no CD drives etc. I used to have a Geforce 2 400, but now i'm running off a old pci card until i can afford a nice new graphics card. Both have had the same problems. I was thinking it was possibly not in the pci slot properly, but its in as far as it will go.

My specs are:
Asus A7N8X Dx rev 2
Athlon 2500+ @ 3200
120gb Seagate SATA HD

any suggestions?

[5lab]

could be a dodge monitor cable - does the system power the rest of the bits up but just not the monitor?? try flashing your bios as well - if this was dodgy it could provide a fault like this

[adam_tomlinson]

well i'm 95% sure its not the moniter, but i'll try flashing the bios thats definately worth a try. thanks

[adam_tomlinson]

reflashed and still the same, also when the video doesn't come on, the hdd lights dont come on at all so i'm pretty sure nothing comes on.

[streetster]

is the bios set to have PCI has the primary display adaptor? not sure it that'll help, but might do, i was gonna say could be a psu issue, except you've got a new one so i doubt it is that...

Mark

[adam_tomlinson]

ok i have just spend all day trying to fix this problem and it was one of my fans, for some reason when it was connected to the chassis_fan1 the problem occured