How can i tell if a motherboard is posting without a video card

[culso]

i found an old computer i had in my garage and i was thinking of using as a htpc sorta thing but because i dont have a video card and it doesnt have onboard video i dont know whether it is working or not. when i connect the psu and boot it the cpu fan runs and i can tell its running but i dont know if its posting. specs below

cpu: amd athlon 64 x2
mobo: gigabyte ga-ma770-ds3
ram: g-skill 1x2gb ddr2 800
power suppy: some generic 300w
cpu cooler: thermaltake something

 

[culso]

bump

 

[abekl]

you are asking the impossible, There's no way to know without a display of some sort.

 

[culso]

ohk, looks like im just gonna buy a cheap graphics card and find out

 

[Engima]

If it has integrated graphics then the motherboard should have some sort of video connector and if it doesn't then it would not have such a connector.

 

[Jim_L9]

If it has a speaker listen for a single beep that it passed POST.

 

[culso]

it posted (after about 20 mins of niggling with stuff). turns out the gpu i found wasn't in properly, im smart. but after booting past bios and getting to a windows screen it locked up and hasn't booted again :/. the one thing i noticed was the fact that the thing that covers the north bridge was fairly hot and a little loose. dont know it this is normal.

 

[satyamdubey]

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2722#ov
It obviously has a video connector...is it not working? I could not understand why you want a video card?

 

[culso]

i have rev 1.0 and mines like bent and ***. (dont ask me how you do that )