i have a (samsung) dell 2005fpw connected to my geforcefx 5200 (as stated in the other post) and i just noticed that it wont display anythin during boot-up. no post messages, no xp loading screen, nothing. the only time it becomes active is when it fully loads windows (ex. the welcome screen). i would have posted this at dell but their form sucks and i havent gotten the activation link yet....

if you have an on board video card on your motherboard that you are not using, you may have to disable that in the BIOS. It may be sending the boot screens to that video card until it boots windows itself then detects your monitor on the second video card. Check that

thanks for replying to this since no1 else did but my dad actually gave me the solution all that i did was switch the cables and it worked fine! (i was using the DVI connection and switched to the VGA)