OT: onboard video dead, what next?

[Jason Shein]

On April 15, 2005 02:55 am, Alex Beamish wrote:
> On 4/14/05, Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 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?
>

Plug the monitor in. 

Sorry, it had to be said. ;)



Other than that, see if anyone you know has a POST card you can borrow to 
check for POST error codes.

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