does you think it can be saved?

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PcFreak14

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Well my friend gave me a computer when he was moving out of his old house. Its a compaq presario about 2 years old. When he said i could have it, they left it for me to pick up under his porch on cement that was covered by a 2nd story deck. Well i forgot to get it the day to come get it and got it the following day and during the night it was dewy out. I though it wouldnt work due to the moisture, but i was wrong. I checked everything and it looked good. Well i tryed to power it up and everything turns on, fans spin,har drive spins up,cd drives also. The only thing that isnt working is the on-board video. Im not sure if the moisure killed it or whatnot. I was thinking, if i was to get some sort of pci video card and pop it in, do you think i would get away with it working? It has windows xp on it. Its not going to be my primary pc but it works its going to be in my garage just used for aim,youtube, music. nothing intense.

Do you guys think its worth a shot to try?

thanks steve:)
 
well i tryed a video card from my sisters dell, it fit in the slot but im not sure if it was the right one, it wasnt a pci card, i forget what kind it was,
it was in a recessed green slot in her dell and the compaq pc i tried to put it in was a brown recessed slot, is that the same kind or no?
 
yeah, probably.
it might have been an AGP8x slot in her PC and a 4x in yours...but it varies with the brand of MoBo
 
okay i didn't know that. but im getting a pc from my cousin, thats a few years old. ill see what i can scrap from it.maybe the mother board or if theres a gfx card of some sort. ill let you guys know tomorrow. thanks for the help so far
 
Yeah, that was an APG card. AGP slots are green on older dells and brown on pretty much everything else, so it was the right card. Also, I've seen parts go through a lot worse than a little dew and still work, but it's possible that something is fried. You might just try testing parts one by one, but my guess is that it's either the power supple or motherboard.
 
well i dont think anythings wrong with the psu but ill try a diffrent one tomarrow just to be sure, its probably the mother board but the only way to find out is like you said, test everything part by part.
 
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