my video connector to the monitor is broken. I have another video card in the system I connect the monitor to it but get no signal. The computer is booting but I see nothing. How do I switch to the other video card? Is ther a function key I can hit to switch so I can see the boot happening? thanks

You need to disable the broken one in the BIOS. Hopefully you can connect the monitor back to the old video card, if you can't, then you are stuck. I don't know weather your card is onboard or a PCI one. Usually if you upgrade your video card to PCI Express, the motherboard automatically disables the onboard video and enables the PCI Express one. http://www.youtube.com/judenihalmusic

thank you for your information. The external connector was ripped off I suppose I could solder the connections back on but I was lookig for an easy way out.

You *should* be able to access the BIOS using either the onboard or the video card. The only problem you *might* have is when you try booting into Windows. If the onboard port was ripped off, the motherboard itself may be damaged.