I went to gateway tech too have a look-see and in reading came across this
Q: What is APM and ACPI?

A:
Advanced Power Management

The BIOS Setup Utility supports Advanced Power Management (APM) and standby
mode. The energy-saving standby mode is initiated in the following ways:

Time-out period specified in the BIOS Setup Utility
Suspend/resume switch connected to the front panel sleep connector
From the operating system, such as the Suspend menu item in Windows® 95

In standby mode, the motherboard reduces power consumption by using SMM
capabilities. Reducing power to or turning off Video Electronics Standards
Association (VESA) Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS)-compliant
monitors and spinning down hard disks are examples of this.
The BIOS enables APM by default, but the operating system must support an
APM driver for the power-management features to work.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~does this have something to do with whats wrong? and if so, how
would I go about fixinf it? thanks

"Jeff Richards" wrote:

An example of a configuration problem would be having the monitor connected
to the wrong video port, which is getting turned off after the initial
start-up display.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"breezyyb" wrote in message
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I will give it a try and see what happens.what kind of hardware config
problem would I be looking for? and where? just so I can try another
avenue
right away. along with trying to boot with a DOS floppy that is...thanks