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Is my video card on my PC messed up, or what?

Asked by Banjo_Pickin_Appalachian_Wizar (1201points) November 20th, 2015

Hi all. I just moved and naturally took my desktop PC with me. It’s a circa 2012 ASUS tower with a Phillips LCD monitor. After plugging it in at my new home, I noticed the monitor wouldn’t turn on automatically like usual when I turned on my computer. I turned it on manually and the screen said no signal. I figured the VGA cable or jack may be bad and went out and got an HDMI cable. I tried it in both ports and checked the input channel and it didn’t work either. I also tried unplugging the whole shebang and holding down the power button for thirty seconds (on someone’s recommendation) to no avail either. What do I do?

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ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

If you have on board video as well try pulling the be card and using it.

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Tropical_Willie's avatar

Sounds like something got “knocked” in the move, see that the video card is seated in the mount on the mother board. Do this with everything unplugged and you grounded. If you don’t know what I’m talking about take it to a PC repair shop.

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CWOTUS's avatar

Can you borrow another monitor – which you know to be working – to test whether the problem may be a faulty monitor? Right now you don’t know for sure where the problem resides, even though you have made the assumption that it might be the video card.

Did your computer make any odd sounds when starting it up? Most computers have a POST (Power-On Self-Test) routine that sounds audible pings in a certain code if the monitor can’t be written to. (Obviously, if the monitor can be written to, then the messages will appear there as well, such as the messages you get when the keyboard is unplugged or a drive is not reading, etc.) Understanding what the sounds mean can help you interpret what the computer is trying to tell you about the problem.

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jerv's avatar

When I had my old tower shipped cross-country, I had to reseat the video card and DIMMs. Under the conditions, I’d concur that that is teh most likely problem.

@CWOTUS Whenever I’ve had a loose card, the BIOS still registered it; no “one long, two/three short” beep code.

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