Pc won't display an image

[Jarno04607]

A friend of mine has bought a pc off of craigslist and since he had it he has had issues with that the System won't display anything.

So far i'be tried swapping the graphics card and re-seating the graphics card, clearing cmos, and removing the battery on the motherboard and putting it back in.

Sometimes it would suddently work again but later it would have the same problems again.

 

The spes of the pc are

 

CPU unknown to me

MoBo Asus Striker Extreme

Ram Dont know the brand but it is 8gb's ddr2 at unknown speed

GPU: it came with a xfx 8800 gtx but my friend replaced it with a GTX 1050 from gigabyte

Windows 7 Pro 64bit

 

Also the LCD on the motherboard is broken

 

Does anyone know things that i can try or am i going to have to replace something?

[CharminUltraStrong]

2 minutes ago, Jarno04607 said:

A friend of mine has bought a pc off of craigslist and since he had it he has had issues with that the System won't display anything.

So far i'be tried swapping the graphics card and re-seating the graphics card, clearing cmos, and removing the battery on the motherboard and putting it back in.

Sometimes it would suddently work again but later it would have the same problems again.

 

The spes of the pc are

 

CPU unknown to me

MoBo Asus Striker Extreme

Ram Dont know the brand but it is 8gb's ddr2 at unknown speed

GPU: it came with a xfx 8800 gtx but my friend replaced it with a GTX 1050 from gigabyte

Windows 7 Pro 64bit

 

Also the LCD on the motherboard is broken

 

Does anyone know things that i can try or am i going to have to replace something?

If removing the CMOS battery provides a temp fix, locate the mobo manual online and figure out where the CMOS reset jumper pins are.

[Jarno04607]

Clearing CMOS didn't sloven the issue, it is just a thing that i tried.

 

[G33k 4 L1F3]

Holy moly that build has us going back in time. What was the reasoning behind buying this computer vs. Just buying the parts for a budget computer? support will be limited on an older PC like this.

 

and just removing the CMOS will not do anything. the BIOS settings are saved to a firmware chip on the motherboard, and will need to be cleared via the jumper settings. @Jarno04607

 

*edit* To add, if this doesn't work, and the onboard is broken, ,then it sounds to me that this was unfortunately an unsound investment. He may need to consider scrapping the build and starting new.

[Jarno04607]

I have just tried doing the instructions but i'm still not getting an image

[Jarno04607]

i decided to take all the parts out of the case and try to turn on the computer outside of the case and for now it's working but i'm expecting it to stop working in a lilt while because i had it work and fail later multiple times now