• Computer won't show image!
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I'm currently trying to boot up this crappy old computer my uncle gave me so I can use it as a secondary computer for browsing. It's using an ASUS Nvidia GeForce 7200 AGP card (I believe) on an older ASUS mobo with a Pentium 4. Anyways, the mobo doesn't have a built in GPU and the 7200 won't show anything. I've tried it on 2 different screens, a wide screen TV and my dad's 4:3 monitor. Everything seems to be running, there is no signal from the card though. Should I buy a new crappy card just to see? It's not a nice build, as I said, VERY basic browsing and stuff. [editline]05:33PM[/editline] I've tried to get it to work, I don't know whatsup. It won't even show the BIOS. [editline]06:18PM[/editline] Everything seems to be running, I can't for the life of my locate where the speaker for the beep error is supposed to go on this mobo, I looked through the manual even and there doesn't seem to be anything. I know the PSU is fine because it ran my current system about a month ago. I also know the RAM should be fine. It's narrowed down to the CPU (which I'm like 99% sure it DOES work), the GPU (seems to be what the problem is, that's the only thing that doesn't appear to be working), or the mobo (though everything else runs fine, so I don't see how it could be the mobo). The parts are all pretty old now ('03 - '04) so they don't fit in any other computer in the house for troubleshooting. Dammit.
I would check ebay for a Geforce FX 5200, they seem to be pretty cheap and in my experience are perfect for an old machine.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;22520122]I would check ebay for a Geforce FX 5200, they seem to be pretty cheap and in my experience are perfect for an old machine.[/QUOTE] Alrighty, do you know of any way that I could check to see if the machine is performing WITHOUT the monitor? Like, I can't think of anything... I guess I could hook some speakers up and see if it makes the windows boot noise, assuming I actually have an OS installed on the HDD.
From what I've noticed, if you press the power button before windows boots, it shuts down faster then if you press the power button after it boots. So just turn it on and off in about 5 seconds, then turn it on, wait like 10 minutes and see how long it takes to turn off from that. If there's a significant enough difference then everything else is probably fine.
True. Let me test this. Nice suggestion. [editline]10:53PM[/editline] Nope, nothing. Like, if it's been running for over 10 minutes, it takes like 5 seconds of holding the button to shut off. If I restart it, it still takes that long, not the normal shut down fast shindig that happens on this build. I also plugged in headphones and heard no windows startup sound, though it may have been stuck in safe setup mode. Well this blows hard.
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