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Monitor does not turn on
A week ago a friend gave me a generic tower with:
ECS K7S5A board,
Trident Blade 3D 9880 graphic card
40GB western Digital HD
Toshiba SD-M1202 DVD ROM
LG GSA-H55N DVD re-writer
Epson SD-800 duel floppy disk Drive (3.5" and 5.25")
Creative labs/ensoniq 6000739 sound card
512MB of DDR memory
Don't know the processor speed and type
Power supply says made in 2002, so I'll have to guess the computer was made around that time and has windows XP installed.
When I got it, it would not turn on (power connections to all drives were disconnected), now she turns on (all drives, fans (2) and mouse light up) but it won't turn on the monitor (monitor works on my other tower). I hear a few beeps when powered up (three I believe), could the graphics card be bad or do you think it's something else. Just want to use it to surf the net maybe burn cd/dvd's unless what's in there is useless, then I'll gut it out and use it for something else. but for now I would like to see it turn on the monitor and show the set up screen.
In the picture below I disconnected the floppy drive because it was making some noise and I won't ever use it.
Board Number pic below
Video card pic below
Thanks in advance.