Hi

need someone in birmingham or coventry to repair my Dell Desktop? Its powering up but doesnt seem to be sending signal to the monitor

 

Im a techy mate... Its a video card fault mate. You need to buy a replacement graphics card with a vga plug and just plug monitor into that instead. The type you want is a pcie graphics card. About a tenner on flee bay.

 

Cheers I will give it a go, there seems to be some sort of lock on the top (probably to stop people like me tinkering lol) on ebay now looking for a graphics card

 

the perks of WMI and its vast amount of members

 

Hammer.

 

WMI rocks

 

Oh so tempting, but if I start I probably won't stop bloody pc

 

How old is the PC, might be worth upgrading. Wait that would be money better spent on the scooby lmaoooo

 

A LOCK!?

Didn't know brummies let little things like that stand in their way!

 

I wouldnt be going buying any parts just yet, open the case and have a look at the capacitors on the main board (they look like little batteries soldered onto the board) as per below. Dell are renowned for them leaking/doming and screwing the motherboards.

 

As above yes, always worth a checkk but i bet my bottom dollar a gfx card will fix your problem

 

Haven't those got built in graphic cards on the motherboard. if thats broken who knows what else is.

 

Yes I am concerned that I will find more faults but until I get the graphics card in I wont know. Hopefully its nothing more serious than a graphics card

Not really looking to upgrade the tower, its about 3 years old I could do with gettting it working as its got all my old college work on their and loads of pictures, i never got round to backing up

 

Just open it up unplug yr hdd and plug it in 2 a different pc then u can get all yr stuff.

 

I'd be surprised if you've lost any data by the sounds of it.

 

U shud not lose any data. Yes it may have on oard graphics and this could be the fault so just buy a cheap graphics ard with a vga output, plug it in and it should come on. If u can get a friend or family members an pike teir grfx card and see if it sorts it.