My friend may need to buy a new motherboard very soon.
His old PC had a Intel Pentium 4 631 HT 3.0GHz processor.
He is unwilling to buy a new graphics card and so wants to buy the motherboard with best integrated graphics but whose price is less than 6k.
The lower the price, the more the chance he will buy it.
The only criteria is that the integrated graphics should be better in performance than an ATI Radeon Xpress 200(his previous motherboard had this one).
P.S: Me and my friend still dont know if his present motherboard has conked out or not. So he may not buy a new board if his present one works fine.
His powersupply got fried and so he bought a new 450W SMPS(Indian brand, never heard the name of the company before and so dont remember it).
The next day, while doing a Windows XP disk scan, there was a powercut. When the power came back on, he is unable to turn on his PC ever since.
He says that his mouse, keyboard, DVD writer has power but whenever he presses the Power button on his cabinet, nothing is displayed on screen(not even the BIOS info). The screen remains blank.
I thought that maybe his monitor had died. So I asked him to disconnect the video adapter from the MB and turn the monitor on. And quite surprisingly, the "No Video Signal" message was displayed on screen.
I now think that maybe something has happened to the onboard video chip.
What do you guys think?
His old PC had a Intel Pentium 4 631 HT 3.0GHz processor.
He is unwilling to buy a new graphics card and so wants to buy the motherboard with best integrated graphics but whose price is less than 6k.
The lower the price, the more the chance he will buy it.
The only criteria is that the integrated graphics should be better in performance than an ATI Radeon Xpress 200(his previous motherboard had this one).
P.S: Me and my friend still dont know if his present motherboard has conked out or not. So he may not buy a new board if his present one works fine.
His powersupply got fried and so he bought a new 450W SMPS(Indian brand, never heard the name of the company before and so dont remember it).
The next day, while doing a Windows XP disk scan, there was a powercut. When the power came back on, he is unable to turn on his PC ever since.
He says that his mouse, keyboard, DVD writer has power but whenever he presses the Power button on his cabinet, nothing is displayed on screen(not even the BIOS info). The screen remains blank.
I thought that maybe his monitor had died. So I asked him to disconnect the video adapter from the MB and turn the monitor on. And quite surprisingly, the "No Video Signal" message was displayed on screen.
I now think that maybe something has happened to the onboard video chip.
What do you guys think?