Video card not working for some reason.

[M1kkelZR]

hey all,

my uncle gave me this pc because its dead according to him. i got the CPU and power supply running. HDD working fine, but when i plug a monitor in it wont do anything. it has an OnBoard Nvidia Graphics and i have an MSI PCIe one. ive tried both but nothing happens...

i dont know the model of the PC or Nvidia chipset so that sucks.
if this helps here are a few specs i know of:
320GB HDD
2GB Ram
AMD Athlon 64 LE 1600
Vista Basic

thanks in advance

 

[johnb35]

What happened to the machine when he had it? Have you tried resetting the cmos by taking the cmos battery out?

 

[M1kkelZR]

well im not sure what happened. he just told me that one day it worked fine the next it wont show anything on the monitor. i havent tried the cmos battery yet, ill try that now.

nope didnt help a thing.
the screen says this when i plug it in:
RGB NO INPUT SIGNAL then turns the backlight off, the monitor works though as i use it as a second monitor on my laptop.

 

[johnb35]

First you need to unplug the power from power supply, remove the battery, press the power button on the case a few times to discharge any remaining power and then wait 5 minutes. Then insert battery and reconnect power and try booting up.

 

[M1kkelZR]

nope no luck still same screen.

 

[bratsos]

Try to change with a another PSU the old PSU...
And if no luck, try to hear any alerts audio, form motherboard speaker.

If nothing hear every startup of machine, most of case, is a dead motherboard.

Usually if has issue with RAM or HDD or GPU, will generate a mobo alert sound...

Before try any from this steps, do this first :

Remove all no needed objects (floppy,hard disk,cd-dvd driver,and disabled if you know how, the mobo sound with a jumper. And Remove all cables attacked in to the mobo, from hhds, etc...
And then try to boot your computer with this minimal stuff.

 

[M1kkelZR]

well im not sure if the mobo is dead, because when i power on, de cpu gets power and everything gets powered on. just that the gfx cards wont do what they should

EIT: yeah the mobo is dead. so i might buy a mobo from a friend. for now im trying to remove the sock from this mobo and putting it in my old one so i can check the performance on the cpu.