Mac pro boots up but no display...

The computer boots up and I hear the chime, but there is no video at all - I have tried three monitors and they all work on different computers, - but it cannot be seen on that system - help|!!

Thank you, but I couldn't see my display and it was a pain.
Finally, I found a page in the support area describing my issue and it told me to disconnect everything, which I did.
After 15 seconds, connect the power, then the video and keyboard and voila! it works!!

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I think this has been a problem since the beige G3 and an early speaker-equipped Mac display.
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I hope that anybody has the same situation. I bought a Mac Pro and the LED cinema display. Installed boot camp and windows vista. Now I recognized that the iSight camera build in the LED cinema display is not always working. Mostly not. Sometimes the iSight is recognised but as written mostly not . May be the USB is out of specification. I want to give the display back and buy a new one. Before i go this way I want to be sure that normally this configuration is working. Could anybody please confirm this?
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frankiko wrote:
Thank you for your quick response.
You're welcome, frankiko
Is it true that in your opinion it should work?
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I will try your suggestions ... send back the LED cinema display... it seems to be working with MacOS.
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