I am in a bit of a pickle.. any help or suggestions would be very useful.

My Computer Specs:

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Motherboard Model: VT8237R
CPU: 2.8ghz
Ram: 512mb DDR 333mhz (PC2700)
Hardrive: 40gb
O/S: Windows XP Pro /w SP 2
Power Supply: 420w
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I got this computer off of someone not too LONG ago and it has been working pretty well. Here is what happened though; I went through bios and disabled the onboard video... as soon as that happened, the MONITOR shut off.

Every TIME I turn the PC on, the monitor stays off and the light is orange, in standby.

When I boot up, there is nothing but BLACK, which means I cant seem to navigate through my bios screen.

I tested out all my monitors (from my backup PC's), they didnt work. (They work on the backup PC's). I put in a video card which was working on one of those PC's into this one, however it still did not do the trick (and yes, I put the monitor cord into the video cards monitor jack, not the onboard one).

There was no motherboard manual when I obtained this computer. Not quite sure how to reset the Cmos/Bios setting with this motherboard. Couldnt find much info on it.

Nothing else was changed except that bios setting, yet I still cannot figure out what else to do. I even tried to blindly press F7 while booting into bios (with no monitor on) in hopes to restore defaults then save. No luck. Anyone have any ideas? All the pieces I tried (that didnt work), work perfectly fine in my backups.what you did is kill you monitor connection before ever installing a new or any video card. You should never have went into the bios prior to installing a vid card and disabling your onboard . Hold off a bit till someone with more experience than I, can walk you through fixing this. I can't. Do a google search and see if you can find some remedies or wait a bit till someone else sees this post. All is not lost, it can be fixed*

OH Yeah* Welcome to computer "you" have Hope !! Remove the CMOS battery with all power disconnected for 10 minutes...this should reset the BIOS back to default settings...Yes, remove the main power cord that is supplying your PC with electricity, for about 10 minutes like Patio said.Quote from: patio on July 07, 2007, 09:03:11 AM

Remove the CMOS battery with all power disconnected for 10 minutes...this should reset the BIOS back to default settings...