If there was no monitor attached when it booted, then connecting one now will NOT give you a picture. The Mac disables the video card on most models if there isn't a monitor plugged in at the time of boot. So if you connect one, and get no picture, that doesn't mean it isn't running. A loose simm chip should have given you chimes of doom (or whatever the IIci does, I think that one actually does a car crash noise) when it booted. It might have done it if it booted when you weren't around. Now it will be sitting at a sad mac screen waiting for you to do something. But you can't tell, because no monitor is attached. :-) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>