Machine won't start up

Well, lets start with the basics. Unplug and replug all of your external devices (mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc...) and try to bootup now. If not see if you can get into the bios (f1, f2, f10, delete key) and reset all defaults and then try to getin. If not then you need to open up your case and pull all for your boards out except the video card and pull the hard drive cable and floppy cable. Now try and boot and see if you get a post beep and video. If not try reseating the cpu and memory, and if that does not work I'm afraid that your motherboard is gone. If it does work, start putting things back one at a time and booting your system each time to try and narrow down the problem child. This usally works for me.
Hope this helps.

We need the monitor working first in order to solve any other problems. I assume that the monitor is working with another hardware
Do the following step by step.
1.- Unplug the video card and plug it again. If it is an agp card you must hear a twoclick for a good sitting.
2.- Replace AGP card with another pci or isa video card
3.- Remove all other card, nic, modem, scsi,floppy and HDD, etc.
4.- Remove all -1 memory simm (also rotate them)
5.- Locate the jumper to reset bios setup and reset your bios setup
6.- Press all chips with a socket firmly.
7.- Remove cpu and plug it again.
Check that the cpu cooler is working.
8.- Double check that keyboard & mouse are well connected.
9.- Replace your power suppliy
10.- Your mother is ... death!

Hope it helps

When the T-Bird crashed, it more than likely scrambled the load sequence. First lets get the video working. Unhook the ribbon cables from the harddrives and cd's and any other drive hardware that you have. The ATI card is great, but in the AGP version it is very touchy. If you watch your bootup carefully, the first thing that you will see is the harddrive spinup, then the video bios info, then your boot. We are going around the harddrive at this time. Boot your box and see if the video will respond. If so, enter the bios and make sure that the bios knows that you have an agp card. Boot down and rehook the ribbon cables. If you have a WD harddrive, this may be your problem. I saw a lengthy answer in the Microsoft TechNet database about WD drives in the range from 8 to 30 gig. WD is supposed to be working on it. There is a conflict bewteen Win98 and the WD drive. When the OS crashed, it is probally the result of the video driver. See if the system will now boot, but only boot into safe mode. Remove the video card from device manager and then reboot. Windows will find your video card and reload the drivers. If this works, immediately update the video drivers.

Paul.

Did you literally "Crash" your monitor? as in did you smash it to pieces?

ok, here is my REAL answer:

check to see that the monitor cables are SECURELY connected. and make sure it is plugged in. if all that fails, then you should replace your monitor. I recommend going back to windows 95 or windows 3.1 or something like that. or better yet, just use DOS. the older the software you use, the less
chances a crash will occur.

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