-=PCTechTalk=- Monitor blinks off and on when booting

   Can someone tell me what would make my monitor go black, and then show a
picture, when I am booting up??? The power DOES NOT go off because I can
still see the green light on the monitor itself. (Mine turns amber when the
power is off.) I have a picture when it goes through the initial boot-up
process, showing the RAM and the drive information, but when it comes to the
area when I need to select what OS to boot to, the screen is black. Luckily,
I remember what keys I need to select to get the OS I want to go to, and the
boot-up process continues, even though I cannot see what is happening.
Before it gets to the area where I type in a password for Microsoft
Networking, it blinks off and on intermittently. When it gets to the area
where I need to type in my networking password, the screen "reveals" itself
again so I can type in the password. Then it goes black again until it boots
into Windows.

   Also, this same thing happened, for the first time, when I tried to
upgrade to Millennium Edition. It would boot to Millennium, but would not
show a picture at all. So, I had to remove that OS by reformatting the
harddrive and going back to Win/98SE. I'm running an nVidia 32MEG video card
with shared memory, which is about the only video card that this motherboard
supports. Anyone have any ideas??? Thanks for any and all observations
concerning this matter.

Rick


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