Dead videocard?

[CmaN3]

One of the house computers just recently died, and it happened to be my old rig which was rocking a 9600XT(which I had used up until about a month ago). The story that I've been told about what happened before it died: Hooked up a printer. After printing a paper, the mouse just stopped working. So they restarted the computer, and as of right now the monitor gives me the signal error screen, which usually only happens when it's not hooked to anything. When I hit the power button, it appears to turn on, all the fans spin up and such but the monitor doesnt change. The problem is, that it's socket 754 AGP, with no onboard video, and I dont have any other parts that I could test it with. I' think that its either the videocard or motherboard, but videocard makes more sense as I would think that even if the motherboard died the monitor should still think that it's connected to the computer.

I really just want to make sure it's the videocard before I go out and buy a "new" one only to find out that it's the motherboard and my 9600XT is still chugging along.

Thanks.

 

[Double Jesus]

pull the video card out and turn it on, if it beeps chances are it's the video card... you can count the beeps and verify that it is in fact your video card by looking in the manual or googling it.