Dell Won't "Wake Up"/Work Properly/?

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So my aunt's friend has a Dell Dimension 4600C and some Dell monitor. My aunt asks me to look at it to see what's up with it because something's wrong with it.
I hooked everything up properly and turn it on. The hard drive spins and the power lamp turns on, but the monitor is in a power save mode (the power button is orange instead of green). I try pressing the menu button for the monitor but it says that the computer is in "Power Save mode" and to "Press any key or move the mouse." So I try that and nothing happens. I then try hooking up my monitor to it and it still doesn't work; my monitor says "No PC Signal." So obviously, there's something wrong with the computer...

Any ideas? The Dell site doesn't help at all and I haven't found anything on Google...

Edit: I'm able to turn it off. I've tried using Windows + L, Windows + Shift + L, and Windows + U + U.
I have no clue clue if Windows + Shift + L does anything but one of those turns the computer off, although it takes like 10 seconds... so I'm guessing that it boots properly into Windows (XP).
 
Perhaps a graphics card problem or a connection problem, also try cycling through the different inputs on the monitor by pressing the "-" button.
 
yeah, get her a pos pci graphics card.. It sounds sounds like a onboard vid problem
 
Well, there's no room for an extra card but there is a DVI slot. Do you think I can just get a VGA to DVI converter and plug it into there? Also, I have no experience with dual-monitor setups so I don't know if this'll work since a) there's no monitor in the VGA slot and b) I doubt it has been configured in the display settings.
Will XP just recognize the monitor in the DVI slot?
 
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