The simplest way is to see if you get video out of it. If you get video when you are running Windows, but not when you start up a video game, then the GPU is dead. If you don't get video at all, try another monitor, and of course try all the outputs from the video card -- most modern video cards have two or three. If there are strange video artifacts while playing Video Games, quite possibly the GPU is failing if it hasn't completely failed yet. Because video cards cannot be easily repaired, a simple go / no go is the best you can expect from any sort of troubleshooting; and if the video coming out of it is bad, the only recourse is to replace the card.
video adapter or graphics card. As most of the graphics card have its own bios available
Your Motherboard and Monitor
A video cassette adapter allows your computer or other digital video equipment to play back video cassettes. If for example you have a newer video card in your computer you can connect the adapter to it and the vcr to play the cassette on your computer.
A video card or video adapter translates binary data into images.
A video card or video adapter translates binary data into images.
A video card or video adapter translates binary data into images.
Ethernet adapter is used to connect to the internet, hard drive is used for storage of data, and the video card is used for video processing.
Some video cards do, and some video cards don't. You can buy a vga -> dvi adapter, though.
provides an interface between a computer and a display monitor
A video card is just another name for a graphics card. They are one and the same.
A video display (aiso called a video card,display card ,graphic card,graphic board, display adapter or graphics adapter) is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display.Most vidio cards after various function such as accelerater rendering of 3d scenes and 2d graphics ,mpeg.2/mpeg-4 decoding,tv output.
A hard drive does not have a compatible video card. They don't interact.