Computer isn't displaying anything to output screen.

qualmy · March 8, 2020

When i turn on the PC it starts booting up all the fans are working, you can hear the hard drive struggling to work, but could that be the problem. The PC is 10+ years old so there might be some age problems, but i just don't know where to start, or just to bring it to someone and pay for the fix.

RageTester · March 8, 2020

You can try booting from live USB with linux on it, to see if it's really hard drive to blame.

But do you mean not even BIOS is showing up?

jj9987 · March 8, 2020

Specs? If the PC has both dedicated and integrated GPU, to which port did you plug the display to? Motherboard or dedicated GPU?

Bombastinator · March 8, 2020

56 minutes ago, qualmy said:

When i turn on the PC it starts booting up all the fans are working, you can hear the hard drive struggling to work, but could that be the problem. The PC is 10+ years old so there might be some age problems, but i just don't know where to start, or just to bring it to someone and pay for the fix.

A ten year old had drive is an old hard drive. I’m liking @RageTester’s suggestion. An SSD would be a great update for an older system btw. Makes things go faster for very little effort or money.