I recently installed a new motherboard and processor, and my computer will power on(lights and everything), but not initialize video. The debug LED on my motherboard reads "boot". I have checked every plug, retried every connection, and RESET the CMOS. I have gone to various other places for help, but I cannot figure out what's wrong. My computer has no speaker for POST beeps.

I have recently switched to an older computer and now I'm starting to think that the monitor is really to blame. On some white images, I get a pink smearing effect, like a pink ghost or outline. Such as in a comic strip, the pure black on pure white text will have a pink ghost effect. This recently started happening, and I've had this monitor for 1 year with only one problem(it would always get narrow and pale, but now I've gotten used to it, it almost never fills the screen, and it's always a little pale.). It has also been giving me black distortion specks, for up to 40 minutes after I start it.

So, I am thinking: Maybe my newer computer, which I think isn't INITIALIZING video, really is, and the monitor is having problems.

Help? suggestions? I plan on borrowing a monitor from a friend and trying it on both COMPUTERS.Does your current monitor that you think has a problem able to work on another computer?

[glb]Flame[/glb]I was using the monitor a month ago, everything was fine. I installed the new parts, the computer didn't seem to work. I am using the same monitor now, but on an older computer. I am currently having issues with it, but continue to use it.and if you mean a 3rd computer, then no, I haven't tried a 3rd monitor. Sometime in the near future I plan on trying a different monitor on both computers as well as the current monitor on a different computer.In addition to those problems, the monitor occasionally switches on and off constantly(with the POING sound, as if someone were turning it on and off) but only during start up.If monitor is starting to go bad, it's hard to tell if computer is working or not.  That monitor noise is normal.   It should "click" once at the POST and maybe 1 or 2 other times during the boot.  The noise is video mode switching.  Age of monitor means little, anymore.  They can last a day, a week, a month, a year or 20 years.  I've got a 12-year old monitor...works perfectly.  I've got a 4-year old monitor...headed to the TRASH.  Brand new 17" MONITORS are less than $100.Well first: I don't exactly have $100 lying around

Second, this was a $250 19" flat-glass CRT, which I wouldn't exactly expect to be dead after 13 months.

And I don't mean it just makes noise during boot, it turns on and off, like every second until I get into windows.