black screen need some help a little

[yvesj]

here is my problem .
you know that i build 2 new pc .
on one of my new pc the power supply burn so i took the power supply from my old pc .
now yesterday i receive the new power supply for my old pc .i put it in all fine but no screen .black .
now all the fans are working .motherboard light is green .pcu is working.the hard drive is working .i did pull the ram out .put them back in .well i did try every thing .
well all is working but black screen .
now it is not my monitor because it is working fine on my 2 other pc .
i do not have a video card on my old pc .
so do you thing i should buy one .

[yvesj]

now it is a ddr2 so i was thing of getting this video card .

ASUS GeForce 8400GS 589MHZ 512MB 677MHZ DDR2 Silent Low Profile DVI HDMI PCI-E Video Card

[Train]

As long as you have selected the correct slot, pci, AGP, PCI-E it should do just fine.

Curious as every video card I have had go bad, I could not even boot the computer.

[SuperSparks]

If this is the PC that the original PSU burned out on, then it may have taken out other components with it. Cheap power supplies have a tendency to do that, and you will get the symptoms that you describe. TBH, it sounds like motherboard failure to me

[yvesj]

thank train
here is my old pc mother board info .
this is a 32bits ddr2
lga 775 -1066 or 800 mhz.
ram 667 or 533 .
on board video -gma-3000 .
now it take -pci expressx16 .
so is this video card do the job on that board .

MSI N8400GS-MD256H/TC GeForce 8400 GS 512MB Turbocache (256M) 64-bit PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

[yvesj]

if you need all the info about the intel board .
i could copy the info and send it to you .
so i thing for 29.99 for the video card mentionned above be a good fix .what do you thing

[SuperSparks]

How do you know that the problem lies with the graphics card?

[yvesj]

i just don't know what happen .this computer was working fine 3 weeks ago when i took the power supply out of if .
now with the new one i cant not get the screen to come on .
do onboard video just blow like that .
because there is nothing to hook up a power supply .all you have is the 4 pin and the 24 pin power to plug so or cant you screw up some thing .
that get me

[yvesj]

guess what happen .my board was still perfect it me that pull the [clear rtc ]right out of the board .i did not know what it was till yesterday when i was reading the user guide of my new board .
it a little plastic tab 2 pin .
like i said before there is a lot of stuff that i don't know yet .
now i know what that little plastic tab is .lol .
so it cust me a new computer for nothing .
ha well it was getting old anyway .