Will adding a new video card work

[Jbowens]

Hello,
My hardware expertise ends with upgrading ram and hard drives. I am trying to figutre out if putting In a new graphics card will fix my grandparents computer. The video feed stopped working after a power went out and was restored. I have connected it to known working monitor and cable still with no picture. All the fans spin, and hard drive appears to be good. It is a hp a6000n with integrated graphics but there are extra slots. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[COLGeek]

Adding a stand alone video card may help, but with an integrated video adapter failure, it could be indicative of a defective motherboard.

If you have access to a video card (GPU), you can install it to see what happens.

Good luck!

 

[geekapproved]

It could be more than just a video failure.

You need to find someone with a spare video card and see if it works.

I take it they do not have the computer on surge protection?

 

[geekapproved]

You could try removing the cmos battery for 5 minutes and putting it back in.