tomtoms
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I am not gonna lie. I have little background knowledge of the insides of a computer. but thats what I am interested in. My brother and law brought me over an old HP pavilion model a705w. He knows I like to mess with computers and fix them. I took a look at this and he said it was completely broke. Which was wrong. I tested the monitor on my other PC and it worked fine, so I eleminated the possibility of it being the monitor. The problem is the monitor isn't getting the signal. The computer powers up and I see and hear all the fans spinning up properly. the blue power button comes on like it should. I tried to take the ram stick out and put it back. That didn't work. I know I put it back in properly. So my best guess is that either the video card is broke. or the ram is. And I know i have an internal graphics card but I can install a pci. So what I wanted to know was if I installed a pci graphics card would it be detected? and I also wanted to know if I need a new stick of ram. Let me know what would be the best option to do. I am not looking to make it fancy. just want to make it run properly.
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