Boot up problem?

[Trickee]

No not touched any jumpers, i bought the pc second hand all the previous owner (my uncle) did was take out the hard drive and sound card.
so i have put a 160gb sata 2 drive in which needs drivers before it will play ball. i attached a 10gb IDE drive which the motherboard picked up and had windows xp in the cd rom which did seem to start to load up but with no picture, so i cannot see whats happening and cannot select any options.
the HDTV just flashes vga on the screen as if the signal has stopped, this happens with both on board graphics and an ATI radeon card.
flipping computers.

[Alfonso_Frisk]

As I said earlier. I had to keep hitting f8 when the vga flashed and this connected the pc to tv
Mind you I also had to hold the fn function key at the same time

[Trickee]

Thanx Alf i will try that tomorrow i have been hitting f8 but not with the function key as well

[Trickee]

no fn key on my keyboard bugger

[Trickee]

All is well, borrowed a normal monitor and system is now up and running which means you cannot use a Toshiba 32 inch 1080p tv to set up a computer even though it has a pc mode