OT: onboard video dead, what next?

[Matt Price]

hi folks,

ok, what do I do now...  I have a Dell Optiplex GX1 (Don't kno much
about the motherboard 'cept it's a funky folded-up board w/ the PCI
slots at right angles to the rest of the board).  It seems to me to
boot up fine, to find, for instance, the hard drive and the CD;
ethernet connects fine (I can ping but naught else -- I think the hard
drive has windows something-or-other installed on it); but I get no
signal out of the onboard video (this worked fine last time I tried
the machine out but it's been used by a not-so-careful friend for a
while).  I actually want to set this up as a server so am not too
particular about the video access.. but I guess I need video to
e.g. see the BIOS screen or any other such thing.  

So what do I do next?  Anyone know the procedure?  

thanks,

matt

  
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