Computer booting issue

[jordanz]

I found an older system laying around and decided to just clean it up. I had it hooked up, but somehow my sister managed to do something to it, says she kicked it really hard, but the whole VGA port ripped right off.

Now, the computer boots up, no motherboard issues as far as I can tell, no error beeps just POST beeps. I tried putting in a PCI video card, but it won't go to the display. I'm assuming because the BIOS doesn't know to boot to it or because it is just FUBARed.

Anyone have a solution to this type of problem?

SPECS:
2.5 GHz Celeron
256MB RAM
40MB HD

PCI video card I popped in: ATi Radeon 9250

 

[acole1]

you have an AGP card that you can test it with?

also, you might change the option of what video to boot from to pci in the BIOS. (it should have an option like that...)

 

[jordanz]

I would do all that, like I said: There is no way to get the display to show up being that there is no port to use for the monitor. The VGA port is gone and the port on the video card can't be used because I can't get into the BIOS to change which video it uses. And there is no AGP port, so it doesn't matter.

 

[acole1]

wow I am dense today...

You might try and reset the bios.