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When booting Microsoft Server 2003 the Monitor turns on, displays windows boot screen, then shuts off. Why?

I recently changed addresses. I moved my server from one house to the next. Everything used to work fine at my old house but when I tried to turn on my server at my new place it starts to boot up and then my monitor shuts off. I am running server 2003. I get the Server 2003 boot screen with the bar at the bottom, then the screen goes blank and then hibernates. The hard drive light flashes a little but pretty much stops after the monitor shuts off with the exception of a few blinks here and there. Any suggestions?

Public Comments

1. Could be a few things. The physical move may have damaged your hard drive?. Ensure the video card and monitor are OK by booting up your Server 2003 CDROM (instead of your hard drive, BIOS adjustment may be needed for boot order update) and use the Recovery Console to go into "DOS" command mode. Run CHKDSK to check out your hard drive's integrity. You might try commands like FIXMBR and FIXBOOT to ensure correct Master Boot Record and Boot Partition. This would test the monitor, video card, power supply and hard drive. If that all works great, then Windows (boot record, etc) is damaged or corrupted. You can safely reinstall Windows Server by booting the CDROM, pressing Enter to install Windows (do not go to Recovery Console), and then at the second prompt choose the "R" reinstall option to reinstall Windows in the same folder. If you can't boot the CDROM or the video continues to shut off, you appear to have a hardware problem (like a bad video card or a faulty power supply). Find the culprit though a process of step by step elimination.
2. Sounds like something may have been bumped -- checked that all plugs, leads, wires and connections, something could have shaken loose.