[Crazy Panda]

I have an old Sony Vaio PCV-RX650 desktop with a 1.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor and 512mb of ram. It worked great for a while but then suddenly one day the monitor wasn't receiving a signal from the computer. I first thought it was the monitor, but i plugged it in to an old win98 computer and it worked perfectly. So i assumed it was something with the graphics card, so i tried taking it out and putting it back in, but nothing changed. So i got a new cheap card on the internet and put it in, but it still doesn't work. And I've run out of ideas, i cant get anything on the monitor at all, it only says that there's no signal detected and goes into power save mode.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My card:

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agp slot:

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[Compiler]

AGP ports rarely die... Computer is most likely dead, its quite a bit on the age.

Try to reset the board by locating the BIOS jumper (Clear/reset CMOS) - Its a 3-pin jumper near the battery with 2 pins jumped. It should say CMOS or something simular. Switch the position for 5 seconds, then switched it back (The computer is off, but has AC plugged in) Then see if it'll power up. PS: If you cannot locate the jumper - then pop out the battery(looks like a large watch battery).

2) If above doesn't work.try another Power Supply (borrow one) - It doesn't need to fit the case, but you need to power up the board.

3) If that doesn't work, borrow a PCI video card.

If all 3 things don't work, its most likely dead.

If you build yourself - You can recycle the drives into a modern system for about $150 or so (AMD board = $50, dual core CPU = $50, 1GB RAM = $20, case + PSU since SONY is non-standard and very out of date= $75) = $195