Osx 10.1 installs, won't boot-blank screen

I recently picked up a G3 from the local University salvage store for $15, bad floppy & no harddrive. So I dragged it home and set it up, added an old 14gig drive, put in an os 9.2.2 cd and off it went. Thinking that I might like to try getting os 10 on it I split the partitions into a 4gig and 10gig. So far so good. It seemed to rip through os 9, played dvds fine, and even ran Simcity 3000 smoothly.
And then I had to go and try Osx.
The installer ran fine, I selected the 4gb partition for Osx and sent it on its merry way. At the end of the install the "your computer will now restart" message came up, and then the reboot.
Now it starts, chimes, the monitor will kick on for a breif second and then off and nothing! I tried the cuda reset switch which did nothing. If you hold p-r-option-command, the screen will turn on show the Os 10.1s happy mac and restart. If you put the os 10.2 upgrade cd in you can here the cdrom reading off it as it loads it, but you cant see anything. I put the os 9 disk back in, and after a pram reset it will boot the os 9cd fine.
So now the system start folder is set back to os 9, and its working fine.
I really don't have a clue whats going on here. I've pulled all the pci cards, unhooked drives but the cd and hd trying to trouble shoot this with no luck. The battery in its good as it holds the time fine so I don't think thats the problem. I really don't need osx and all its compatability problems with the biege's, but somthing I can't have makes me that much more determined.
Heres a run down on the specs if it helps any.
Biege G3 @ 300mhz
Rev. 3
196mb ram
onboard ati has the extra 4mb of ram
ide 12gig hd set to master (tried it every way)
2x apple dvd drive set to master
All the pci cards except the av/sound card are pulled at the moment.
Pc monitor hooked to an adapter on the outside of the case. This is the only thing I can think of that might be might be causing the problem yet, but I don't have any mac monitors so I cant check it. Is there any way to manualy set osx's display resalution through os9 if its the problem?
Thank you for your help,
Chris

I'm not planning on using the old girl for much more then tinkering around with, so the 4gb should be more then enough. Any encoding or that kind of stuff will probley be sent off to my Toshiba or Dell maybe the imac. I just enjoy messing around with the older legacy macs and was hopeing by getting osx on it I could justify having another box cluttering up my house (9 and counting lol).
I have the full install version of 10.1, my 10.2 cd is an upgrade only cd and will only install if it detects an early version of 10.

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