Old XP [no Monitor display]

A friend? just brought me a comp. to try to repair. brand is V2 Premier
No monitor display.
hard drive works. 30MB western digital " i put it in mine" wanted me to sign up.
replaced vga card- no help.
has intel pentium 4
board ID- P4ITA2
256 mb
reseated all plugins. "cables-cards "
Have mainboard cd- xp-cd. evga-cd. originals that came with comp.
cd-rom lights up - CD 16x10x40x lights- floppy no lite
the \\ button on front is stuck in.
I don't know what to try next.
should i try floppy change too?

 

Hi, Dytrog.

Is it a desktop? If so, did you try connecting a different monitor?

Even if it's a laptop with a VGA port, try connecting an external monitor to it and see if that has a display.

 

it is a desktop. and i tried diff monitor.

 

Hi Dytrog,

I've added to your title to indicate what the problem is

Regards - Charles

 

switched floppy lite on it now. no display

 

You'll have to correct that. That button is for your momentary contact switch and it has to be working properly or you'll have a tough time getting this to boot. You can disconnect the power switch at the motherboard pinouts and use a s_crewdriver blade to startup and shutdown or you can wire your reset button to the same pins and use that but a stuck power button results in a stuck switch (probably nothing wrong with the switch itself) and that means you can't power all the way off (4 second hold) or back on.

 

Rockster
Don't have much to add but just in case I'm right and you're wrong (not much chance of that when it comes to hardware ) I read that as the button on the floppy drive is stuck in, which, would be normal as long as there's no floppy in the drive.

I could be wrong but in order to avoid possible confusion here, it would be nice if Dytrog would clarify this for us.

 

old xp no display

re- button stuck. it's not the power button. it's a small button with // by it when pushed it is supposed to light up the drives. like a restart or boost? and the new - used floppy lights when disc is inserted.

 

My very first computer (1995, Win 3.1) came with a button on the front called boost. I found out it was put there to actually slow down the processor so that older programs would work. I could see there was a definite difference in speed with the button set in one condition and not the other. Take the wires off of the boost switch but I don't know if that will help.

Have you removed the battery and let the bios go back to default? I have had that work in the past. Some have a jumper to clear the CMOS, some don't.

 

No but i'll try it now. let you know.

 

old xp no display

took out battery waited a few replaced- no help. thought i had a pent. 4 chip. if i do i could not find it.
the reset button is still stuck. while it was powered on i unpluged repluged nothing happened--no lights flashed.

 

old xp no display

I guess i'll give up on this one. i like the case. i think i'll keep it get mother board and start rebuilding over time and when parts i like are cheap. &