Hi again,

In addition to the monitor, I have another problem

I have an EPoX 8KTA3 mother board.  Shortly after the monitor acted up, 
  I received this on the screen while booting

=========
Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0

BIOS ROM Checksum error

Detecting floppy drive A media...
INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
===========

It will not boot from a DOS system disk or an Award flash ROM disk

I have cleared the CMOS via jumper

Then I removed the CMOS battery and inserted a new one 24 hours later

All done with the same result - I still get the same message

My thought is that the BIOS is toast and the demise of the monitor is 
tied to whatever killed the BIOS (which I may have done while inserting 
a new PCI USB 2.0 card)

Your thoughts would be appreciated please

Thanks

Preston

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