-=PCTechTalk=- Trouble-shooting NO POST

Anyone know of any tool that would allow me to quickly diagnose why a
computer would not post? This is nothing I'm in current need of, but today I
did a tech job and I had a system that was not posting. The computer was new
and was not posting. The system would go on and the LEDs were going on, but
video signal going to the LCD flat screen and no beeps from the computer. I
figured out it was the video card by doing some swap outs on an old
computer, but I was lucky that the customer had the old computer lying
around. If not, it would have taken me longer, especially since I didn't
have any spare hardware to swap out with.
 

Is there something I can plug the video cable leading to the monitor into to
test just the monitor? How about the video card? Here's cable testers, but
is there any way to straight out test a card (outside of trying it on a
functioning computer)?

 

Any suggestions?

 

---Troth

 



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