Power up the monitor a couple of minutes before you turn on the server, turn the brightness and contrast wayy up, so you will see anything that goes on. Then, turn on the server, you should see some POST messages, these are generated using the most lowly of vga driver signals. If you see nothing but the "snow" from having you're brightness up too high, and the server appears to go through a boot process (watch the drives...)you have a bum monitor, or a display adapter in you're box that's bad. Hope this helps...