I have an Inspiron 580 MT : Intel Core i5 Prozessor 760(2,80GHz,8MB) desktop and it isn’t starting up. It’s giving me 6 beeps (6 beeps - pause - 6 beeps - pause ...) which I’ve looked up. It means Video Bios test failure, but I have no idea what to do now. Can anyone please help? Thanks.
Check all cable connections for a tight fit first--cables can loosen sometimes. Remove them and put them back. A new card does not cost too much for mid range video card.
If what @Mary G suggested doesn't help, you may also want to try re-seating the video card in its slot too. And reset BIOS at the same time, which would clear the error, assuming the card hasn't died:
Power off, unplug
Press/hold power button for ~15 sec
Open case and remove motherboard battery (check Service Manual for details)
Press/hold power button for ~30 sec
Re-seat video card in its slot (#23 in diagram on page 38 in Service Manual)
@Julia94 The error message implies you have an (optional) add-in video card. If you have an add-in video card, it will be in the area marked by the green box. If you only have onboard video (standard), those 2 ports are in the area marked by red box.
If you have add-in video card, the 2 onboard ports are disabled, so the monitor(s) has to be connected directly to the add-in video card.
If it turns out the add-in video card died, you could physically remove it from the motherboard slot and connect a monitor directly to either the onboard HDMI or VGA port, until you get a new add-in video card, or if you don't want to buy a new add-in video card.
Using an onboard video port may affect PC's performance. And given a choice, use the onboard HDMI port which is a digital signal, while the onboard VGA port is a low quality analog signal.
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Did you see this? https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000124349/understanding-beep-codes-on-a-dell-desktop-pc
6 beeps means a video card or chip failure on that chart.