Does monitor matter?

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After figuring out what I needed and getting a build aproval from you guys I ordered my parts. In record time, 20 hours from buy to delivery, I got my parts. I installed them and had the same problem as this Momentary Power .

Anyway I got through that and everything seems to be running however I get nothing on my screen. I'm running a Q6600 on a P5Q Pro MB. My video card is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121082 and I have it connected to a 10 Year old Trinitron I got from DELL. I know it works, I'm using it right now for this post. Any advice? I have it hooked up to the left DVI port through an adapter that came with the video card. There is also an S-video cable output. Can I simply hook it to a TV ans see what happens.

I guess a more appropriate question is how long shoud it be before I expect to see or hear anything. The MB user guide says 30 seconds. I'm assuming I have a little speaker on the MB. I pressed the DELETE key to get it into bios but nothing. I did power up and power down a few times thinking in trying to fix the original problem.

Sorry for the simple and maybe stupid questions. It's late after an early morning and late work day. I'm probably not at the top of my mental game. Hopefully someone has an easy answer for me in the morning.

[shadowpr]

Please list all parts, make and model.

Also, try this: PROBLEMS with a NEW BUILD? Try This!!

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I got it working. I used the link shadowpr provided. I saw it last night but wasn't going to yank everything out then. I don't know what it was but when I powered it up on the cardboard it started right up. Put everything back in just the way it was and it now works. A feeling of relief!

Since you asked here is my list taken from this thread My turn for a "Check my build" thread

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129042 ANTEC 300
PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341012 OCZ 500 Watt
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131299 Asus P5Q Pro
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115017 C2Q Q6600
Memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145168 Corsair 1G X 2
Harddrive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148288 2 for a simple RAID 1 Seagate 500 G
Video card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121082 Asus EAH2600XT

Sorry you didn't get to help me with this issue, but I'll be back tommowor when I'm trying to set up the BIOS and load the OS