Without the drivers you should get basic vga graphics. Did you clear the CMOS jumper? Did the previous owner use a PCI-e card for graphics?

The resources for your board are easy enough to find. Checkout support for the drivers and manuals.

http://www.intel.com/products/mother...65WH/index.htm

what about cpu? if bad wots its symptoms?

From what he told me he didnt have nething attached except 1 512 ddr2 mem in it. all the fans come on,the disk drive lights up n looks like its working,the lil light on motherboard lights up but nothing on moniter

what if the cpu is bad? Would that cause the problem? thot bout gettin a cheap cpu to test theory but wanna make sure wot u all thot..getting desperate lol