it goes through NO screens....no mobo splash screen (where you access the bios) and no xp load screen...you simply turn it one, it runs all the fans at max speed and keeps running them at max until you shut it off....no beeps or nothing!...
The screen wouldn't say ANYTHING when i had my timings at 4-4-4-12, 2 cmd timing (rated for the ram) and then when i set it to auto, same thing again but this time it did beep and the fans idled down but all the screen said was my make/model of my video card "x1950xt pcie 16" in gray text on a black background...again no mobo splash screen or xp boot screen!
who knows...when i'm done with my online classwork, i'm going to bump the voltage up to 2.25v and see if that helps (right now it's in auto and they are rated at 2.2 but 2.25v is closest to 2.2 in my bios)