video card problems/motherboard

[thereisntagoodname]

Alright im new to this site sorry if i made a reply look like a new thread lol. Anyways like i said in the previous my motherboard wont recgonize that theres a video card on board. When i fire up the computer the red error light comes on on the front of the computer. What should i do because the screen will not come up inorder for me to fix the internal problems. The screen comes up pretty much blank like it does when you need to reformat a hard drive yet i don't need to do that because its already been done for me. Can someone please help me ?

thanks

 

[pmonett]

What is the video card, the motherboard ?
Is the video card properly inserted, does it have any additional power connectors and are they connected properly ?
Try to reset the BIOS and restart, that sometimes does the trick.

Pascal.