HP Presario 4530 loose leads

[ms]

Power on, fan runs, hard drive light on, but black screen. Quite awhile
ago, answer here on this machine was probably a bad onboard video card.

Opened up the case, out of the power supply is a loose 4-wire power cable
with a small connector, smaller than I see on the CD drive or the floppy
drive.

The cable harness has a spare data connector tucked into a bay beneath the
existing CD drive. But the power supply rating is only 100 watts, so don't
think it came with more than 1 floppy drive and 1 CD drive.

I was hoping the loose power cable would match a jack on the MB, maybe help
video issue. But don't see any 4 pin jack on the MB within reach of the
cable.

What is the cable likely for?

ms

 

[Galen Somerville]

"ms" <ms@invalid.com> wrote in message news:5nn4bnFj1deuU1@mid.individual.net...
> Power on, fan runs, hard drive light on, but black screen. Quite awhile
> ago, answer here on this machine was probably a bad onboard video card.
>
> Opened up the case, out of the power supply is a loose 4-wire power cable
> with a small connector, smaller than I see on the CD drive or the floppy
> drive.
>
> The cable harness has a spare data connector tucked into a bay beneath the
> existing CD drive. But the power supply rating is only 100 watts, so don't
> think it came with more than 1 floppy drive and 1 CD drive.
>
> I was hoping the loose power cable would match a jack on the MB, maybe help
> video issue. But don't see any 4 pin jack on the MB within reach of the
> cable.
>
> What is the cable likely for?
>
> ms

If it's a square 4 pin connector it might be for a Pent 4 CPU.

You don't give the specific model # of the Presario 4530 but in general the graphics card is built
into the motherboard.

It does have an AGP expansion slot for an external graphics card if you want to try that.

Galen

 

[ms]

"Galen Somerville" <galen@surewest.net> wrote in
news:O9$dMMPEIHA.3880@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

>
> "ms" <ms@invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:5nn4bnFj1deuU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Power on, fan runs, hard drive light on, but black screen. Quite
>> awhile ago, answer here on this machine was probably a bad onboard
>> video card.
>>
>> Opened up the case, out of the power supply is a loose 4-wire power
>> cable with a small connector, smaller than I see on the CD drive or
>> the floppy drive.
>>
>> The cable harness has a spare data connector tucked into a bay
>> beneath the existing CD drive. But the power supply rating is only
>> 100 watts, so don't think it came with more than 1 floppy drive and 1
>> CD drive.
>>
>> I was hoping the loose power cable would match a jack on the MB,
>> maybe help video issue. But don't see any 4 pin jack on the MB within
>> reach of the cable.
>>
>> What is the cable likely for?
>>
>> ms
>
> If it's a square 4 pin connector it might be for a Pent 4 CPU.
>
> You don't give the specific model # of the Presario 4530 but in
> general the graphics card is built into the motherboard.
>
> It does have an AGP expansion slot for an external graphics card if
> you want to try that.
>
> Galen
>
>
Thanks, no external card, so that it on this machine.

ms