Need a little help

Dean Campbell · Tuesday at 21:38

Hi. A colleague has asked me to take a look at pc he was given .

Unsure of the spec:

Msi motherboard (no ports for display)

4 sticks of ram . MB has 6 slots in total

Windforce gfx card??? Only number i can see is d33006

Cpu no idea

No hdd that i can see .

It turns on but the screen says no signal.ive used a hdmi on the gfx card to connect to a tv as there is no ports on the motherboard.

Any ideas where to start?

Tetras · Wednesday at 00:28

Since it is likely to be an old board, I'd replace the battery.

Simon Belmont · Wednesday at 11:25

Replace battery as said above, If it doesn't work then check connections on MB. Trying a different GPU

throwaway4372 · Wednesday at 11:52

my gut feeling is it might be too old to be worthwhile.
what is the objective here? just to get it working? for what sort of usage?

some pictures could help ppl identify what hardware we're working with:
- photo of motherboard
- photo of the ports on the back of the pc including the graphics card ports
- photo of label on side of ram stick
- photo of label on side of power supply
- photo of graphics card

freddie64 · Wednesday at 12:36

With it having 6 x RAM slots, my thinking is it is a X58 motherboard.

From what ican remember it did not support onboard graphics so you do need a Seperate GPU.

If it is X58 think the RAM has to be in correct slots if using 4 sticks.

As has been mentioned, change the battery and some pictures will help a lot.