by jbone » Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:11 am
The problem isn't your video card.
During a computer's Power-On Self-Test (or POST for short), the computer ALWAYS beeps at least once. If there is no beep whatsoever, then the computer isn't POSTing at all, meaning it's not even able to start the most rudimentary of functions.
Were the problem your video card, you'd hear one long beep followed by three short beeps. (That's the standard beep error code for a faulty/missing video card.)
Your CPU may not be fully in place, your RAM may be faulty or loose, some cable or other may be shorting out something else...
Right now, you have no evidence that your video card is faulty/incompatible. Don't waste money on a new video card until the system actually returns an error code indcative of a faulty video card.
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