The vid card is integrated. There's nothing coming up on screen at all. Even my POST tester is not getting anything other than the correct voltage. It's an old Emachine with a AMD Athlon 2600 processor. 80 gig HDD and a whopping 512 meg of RAM. I think he would be better off getting a new system. He could get a little $400 system from WalMart that would be better than that one.