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Does the Nvidia card show up in bios under Graphics card Information? This may be a long shot but you could try a factory reset (load defaults) of your bios.

Is the 6pin connector outputing power to the video card? I have had this problem in the past was always bios settings, you should have the option to select both PCI & Onboard Graphics Controller

The crazy part is the price due to the ISA ports. I never would have thought you could get $400-500 for an old PC like this simply because it has ISA slots. Some newer builds with ISA are 2000.00 to 4,000.00 and the customers will pay this since an upgrade of the equipment would cost upwards of...

There is also a setting in the bios that autostarts on system shutdown, might want to check that.

this^ Sounds like heatsink/cpu clearance is not being met by the thermal paste. Clean and replace with the old thermal pads or buy new.

There's a registry hack for XP that will allow updates up to April 2019. https://www.zdnet.com/article/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp/

You can always use linux. Otherwise I would stick with XP lot less memory intensive compared to vista.

A good heatsink/thermal paste will work just as good as liquid coolers. I was always a fan of zalman fans and artic silver thermal compound. Of course your case will play a big roll in how air moves through your case to cool your components

I'm working on a vintage computer for a customer, he really does not want to upgrade if he doesn't have too but It's not looking good at this point. The computer in question is a compudyne 100mhz with windows 2.1. This PC operates industrial equipment so it's not an easy rebuild/replace. The...