OK, I pulled out the 9600 after a year of it sitting under a desk. I'd forgotten how big and how heavy the beast was.

My 9600 has the original video card and Mac Radeon 7000 with DVI/VGA/S-Video. Plugged in USB mouse and attached it to Samsung LCD via VGA.It powered up fine, chimed, and SCSI drives spun up correctly. Screen flickered. But... no video. I kid you not.

Now I'm pissed off. Since I couldn't remember which video card was for the start up monitor I tried all combinations of adapters (Mac DB-15 -> VGA, DVI->VGA). The it dawned on me. The Samsung is a widescreen display.

I hauled the beast back across the house to where I have a non-widescreen display. Plugged everything back in. Powered on and the screen flickered and went blank. Still no display. After saying a few choice words, I opened the case and pulled the Radeon out. Reset the PRAM 3 times. Plugged the DB-15 to VGA adapter in and started up. Success. Full colour and the desktop all there

So, now the big question is what type of display are you plugging into? Also have you pulled the battery and left it out for any length of time?