Hey guys thanks for all the replies, but I'm still a bit confused.
My display card is a geforce4 ti4400 128mb. I've reinstalled linux 3+ times, with both mandrake and redhat. both distros give me the black screen after bootup, the monitor doesnt go into power save(yellow status light) but it stays as green.
Also, what is XFdrake? and what is Xfree86? Sorry, I'm a noob so I don't know anything about linux. I remember doing the setup for display during the installation. It detected my video card as a generic geforce4 and my monitor as digital 1901fp. I thought it might be the resolution comptability, so I changed it to 1024x768 and 16mil colors, but still no luck. ;(
Thanks