Acer does not beep on start up/no signal to monitor

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crystal4042

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Hello,



Did my computer give up?
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I shut it down yesterday and when I tried to turn it on this is what occurs.



The blue light on the tower comes on (solid blue), I hear the fans running and disk drive noise, but no beeps. The monitor says acer, then no signal and turns off(amber color). Any ideas as to the cause of the problem?



Acer Aspire M3100

Windows Vista

4400+ AMD Athlon 64x2 processor /2GB//320GB/DVDRW drive



I am not very computer literate, so please ask if further information is required. Any help will be appreciated.



Thank You
 
Okay so the onboard video is just another name for the motherboard, I'm assuming. Now a video card would already be inside the computer and needs replacement?

I know I must sound terribly dumb, sorry. I looked for the service manual on line, however, it was about 95 pages long and the little diagrams were just letters (another language to me).
 
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crystal4042 said:
Okay so the onboard video is just another name for the motherboard, I'm assuming. Now a video card would already be inside the computer and needs replacement?
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No. Motherboard is like http://gcctech.org/cec/motherboards/motherboard1_large.gif

and video card is like http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/graphics-card-5.jpg

However video chip may be integrated into motherboard, and then integrated video card+motherboard looks just like motherboard.

Anyway something seems to be broken and only solution is to replace faulty part with working one.
 
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