I don't think it is a temp problem because it sometimes would sit all night in close to 0 temp and then it would work in the morning. Now its around 40-50 degrees out so that shouldn't be a prob.
The monitor cable is the same when tested and it worked fine. There are no kinks in it either so I pretty sure thats not it.
I didn't see a boot vga mode in the BIOS. The user manual is
here but I didn't see it in there. I'm not sure if I'll get a chance to mess with it anymore tonight.