Hehe you're right about the cat thing, it looks weird but im not the best artist in the world =). It also wasnt white, but that doesn't matter neither - what do you mean by the monitor common, the video ground from the rgb? or the wire from the frame to the neckboard.. (possible problem there), I haven't turned up the screen control yet - I set it to half before I installed the monitor figuring that I'd get a picture (HA!), I'll give that a go tomorrow. The buzzing really puts me off though, sounds like it's going to explode! I didn't see the chassis working but it was confirmed working by them before they sold it to me so.. :/ This weekend I'll try swapping in my old chassis (presuming that I dont fix the problem by then) and see what happens. About the heaters, if you remember megatech's have the most awkward monitor positions - they're damned hard to get to, the only place you can peer in is from the bottom or through a little grill. Nevertheless, when I was repairing my last chassis I ran it out of the cab with a spare ISO and even then could never see any glow (even though it was working). Those dots have never appeared before by the way.. which is what made me so nervous about it, that and the buzzing 'acourse. I have got all of those connected apart from the degaussing coil 'cause it was cut for unknown reasons (not shorted but meh) so I left it that way. When the weekend comes, if my old chassis fires up just fine on the tube (after a little tinkering to see if I can get it to power with the new one) then I'm just gunna throw the new one in my box o' bits and finally repair the originals.. it's a lot less headache than what this thing is causing me.
Thanks for all the help man, if it wasn't for you I'm sure I'd still be here in January 2007..