I found out something interesting. When I have both the Amiga and the monitor turned on, I see a faint red light from the monitor power led.
Edit: I went onto AmigaKit and bought a Amiga RGB to SVGA/*multiscan video adapter (will try to use another CRT monitor). Hopefully, it should work, if not, I'll return both the A500 and Monitor.
That adapter won't work unless your Amiga 500 has the ECS chipset.
Even then you will need to set your Amiga during boot to go into one of these display modes:
DBLPal
DBLNTSC
Euro 36Hz and 72Hz
Multiscan/Productivity
Super72
VGA Only
...and those modes won't work with most games.
There's a small possibility that this adapter will allow you to use regular NTSC/PAL modes *if* your VGA TV/Monitor can support 15KHz video modes (most cannot). I know the Amigakit website says most CRT monitors can support 15KHz, but I have found the opposite to be true.
