Monitor doesn't recognize graphic card anymore?

The other day I had moved my room around to do a paint job. After it was all done the PC wouldn't boot up properly anymore. It seemed to be ticking "On and off" with the amber light going on and off (in a similar fashion if there was a RAM issue minus the loud beeping), before finally booting itself up. However... the monitor would not recognize the PC. As if there was a connection issue, bringing up the "No Signal" notice. I came to find out that if I were to directly plug my monitor into the PC's original monitor slot it will work, minus the use of my graphic cards.

I went into the device manager and my PC does indeed detect my Nvidia card, a NVIDIA GeForce GT 430. I tried to find out what was wrong with it, it was currently up to date, I tried taking it out and putting it back in, but the results were still the same. I did notice that if I left the graphic card out and booted the PC without it, it would not have that strange boot up effect as if there was a ram issue. So I decided to actually go back to my older Nvidia card a Nvidia Geforce 6150SE nForce 430. I booted it up and it booted normally without the strange "Ticking on and off" issue, but it also would would get no signal to the monitor. SO once again using the original port for the monitor I was able to detect the video card and update it. After updating it and restarting the computer, the SAME ticking on and off and non recognizance occurred!

Could this be an nvida drive update issue? Or is it just my PC not wanting to use Nvidia graphic cards??

thanks




specs:
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3, 32 bit
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+, x86 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 3
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 3454 Mb
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430, 1 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 305234 MB, Free - 112205 MB;
Motherboard: ECS, Nettle2
Antivirus: Microsoft Security Essentials, Updated: Yes, On-Demand Scanner: Disabled

 

The first thing I would do is go into the BIOS setup. I haven't worked with ECS boards for a while; however there may be a video option in BIOS that lets you choose on-board video, an add-on video card or letting the board automatically detect if there's an add-on video card. If you have this option, choose boot to external video card (if this fails, you can restart the PC and switch it back to "automatic").

Hope this helps.