Originally Posted by ScaredLittleBoy

A Brief History:

- Formatted PC last night due to recurrent startup errors, a few virus alerts (although I think they were keygens - damn AVG!)

- Monitor went on standby during XP installation, and wouldn't come back on even though the PC was on etc

- Every time I turn the PC off or reboot it the PC will boot but the monitor WON'T ever ever come on.

- I HAVE to unplug the power leads and wait a few minutes then reboot. Then it works although I think it stays on standby a bit too long and takes awhile to 'find' the signal from the PC

- My PC is also ridiculously slow! I have 1GB of RAM but its only running at 200MHz when it has a 400MHz capacity.

I can update the BIOS myself and hopefully that will help the slowness problem (I can't change Frequency in BIOS manually for some reason)

What I need help with is the monitor problem. I've also tried a substitute monitor that I know is working and had the same problem.

Bad power supply :(
I've only had it a year and a half or two years :(

Help!