Brock24,
W/o an OS you won't get any video & since we have no idea at all what you're running (C64?, Apple?, Win 3.11?, NT?, 95?, 98?, 98SE?, W2K?, BEOS?, Linux?, XP?, etc) we can't give specific info to help ya. ;)
On my Compaq w/98SE I'd boot to 'safe mode' & run some diagnostics, after I...