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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Redrobes" data-source="post: 3032043" data-attributes="member: 40793">I think that the previous posts have summed it up - you need to swap each bit out in turn until you find what is the problem.One thing you can try tho. Can you use the front panel monitor buttons to bring up the "On Screen Display" panel on the monitor - assuming you have one like that. That should come up even if you have the monitor unconnected from the PC. If that used to work and its now dead then its a monitor problem.I have also seen problems like this with the Mobo / CPU going bad so that it could not initiate the BIOS properly and therefore start your graphics card boot sequence. Your card might be ok but it might not be able to boot. In these situations you can get it so that you dont even get it power up as far as the BIOS so it doesnt beep. (Your graphics card has its own BIOS but will not beep of course - you need the MOBO and its BIOS working in order to tell if the graphics card has powered up ok.)Personally If I could not swap stuff out I would start to strip the components out of the machine until I had a mobo, CPU and one stick of ram. No HD, no video card nothing else. Plug in. if the mobo LED comes on you have power. If you get a PC that lights up and does not beep then you have probably got those bits ok. Then start to add to it until it becomes totally dead noting what you last added.Ideally you need spare bits tho.</blockquote>