Have you cheked the BIOS settings? New mobo's have a ton of shutdown/power up options. A common setting is "power off reset". This allows use of a power strip while the PC turns off via the operating system. Then after you turn off the power strip upon next power on everything powers up all at once. One setting that could be effecting you is "power on all but monitor". This allows the same thing as described abve, but allows the user to power on the monitor manually. If the mobo has this setting turned on it may need a power cycle from the monitor to recognize it needs to wake up the video card. Good Luck!
That varies from one mobo manufacturer to another. It even varies within a single mobo manufacturer. However, some popular BIOS entries are hold down the del key during boot and or press F1 during POST. If you can speed read try to read the POST output and it'll tell you how to enter the BIOS. Finally, when all elase fails read the mobo literature.
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That varies from one mobo manufacturer to another. It even varies within a single mobo manufacturer. However, some popular BIOS entries are hold down the del key during boot and or press F1 during POST. If you can speed read try to read the POST output and it'll tell you how to enter the BIOS. Finally, when all elase fails read the mobo literature.
Good Luck!