Really old pc: video not detected.

[Stevoisboss]

My grandpa recently gave me this really old pc so I thought It would be cool to try and salvage it and learn how to use some type of linux on it. I cannot get a signal to this old dell monitor that I'm using. I tested out the vga cable and monitor on my good pc and it worked fine. Specs that I have figured out so far: 128MB of ram, some type of pentium processor, 20GB hdd (picture of gpu below). The cpu fans and the psu fans + gpu fans work fine and as you can see a green light on the mobo always is on. I removed all the cables to the hdd and disk drives and it still didn't boot. I tried a usb mouse and it didn't light up. I cannot plug a vga connector into the mobo becuase it has like a reverse version of it and I don't even know if the processor has an igpu. My questions: Can I install that gpu on my h97 board to see if it works? Do you think its bad ram? Is it worth fixing? If I get this to work what type of linux should I try to put on it?