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sarah maddison Posted on Nov 06, 2017
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How do i know if the video card is internally fixed or can be removed?

The monitor is showing no signal input, and power light on pc flashing amber/blue.

  • Brett Duxbury
    Brett Duxbury Nov 08, 2017

    look at where the monitor cable is attached is it on the motherboard of the computer or is it on a add on pci card . Is there a card video card installed into the motherboard ?

    You might be able to buy a pci video adapter card if the internal video chip is faulty. You would have to disable the integrated Video card in Bios and tell it to run video from PCI card.
    You may be able to find the answer in the bios settings also

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If the video cable plugs in adjacent to the usb ports like the blue and white plugs shown here, you have an integrated video card. If the video connections are located in one of the add on slots ( the vertical slots on the right of this image) you have a separate video card.
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SOURCE: PROJECTOR POWERS DOWN

This would appear to be a bulb that has reached end of life -- or the projector thinks that it is because of hours. Usually most bulbs are 1000 or 2000 hours. Depending on your projector there are different ways of checking bulb life hours -- if you Google your projector model number and "bulb life" you will usually get a post on how to check these hours. Also, if it is a new bulb and you haven't reset the hours counter, it may need to be reset (however you also don't want to wait too long before changing a bulb that has reached EOL since they can and do explode sometimes taking out the projector with it).

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Nov 29, 2008

SOURCE: Monitor malfunction, says VGA Input: No Signal and goes to sleep

If it was your video card, you would have no picture at all. Try to boot in safe mode and do into your options and make sure your hibernation is not on. Only other thing I can think of, it could be *********** board.


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  • Posted on Jul 04, 2009

SOURCE: 1721 Inspiron shows flashing amber, three times, then blue.

The cells in the battery are starting to go bad which is why the light is blinking the way it is.

Once you get a new battery put in there the light will stay blue instead of flashing amber.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jul 09, 2009

SOURCE: Dell Dimension 5150 will not boot. Flashes amber light

I had the same issue with my Dell Dimension 5150 and I replaced the front I/O USB Audio Panel and it booted right up.

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  • Posted on Dec 19, 2009

SOURCE: slow flashing blue power lite. Monitor shows no

First when you power up the computer press F8 key then enter in enable vga mode.
If you are able to enter then go to start menu->control panel->display property ->settings.
Change screen resolution to 1024*768 then apply and ok.
But if you are not able to see safe mode and other menu.
Then open cpu cabinet .
Refix RAM memory.
Pull cmos cell from motherboard for 10 minutes.
Reattach all connection harddrive.
Open processor fan and processor remove dust from all parts.
Make sure motherboard is not ground with cabinet.
Remove PCI cards if any.
After all above still same then change RAM then try.
Let me know if you need further assistance.
Thanks for using FixYa.

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