Old macintosh not working

I have a Macintosh IIci from 1989 that does not display anything on the monitor. I recently took it out of my attic after abut 10 years of storage. Before I put it in storage, it worked completely fine. Now, if I plug the monitor into the built in video port, turning the computer on causes the usual noises (hard drive, fan, chime), then the screen turns on, and displays faint green. If I hold the left button down on the front of the case, The screen turns Blue and the computer chimes upon releasing it. Pressing the other button, just to the right of the first, causes a chime. I tried plugging the monitor into the extra video card, but it acted like it wasn't plugged in to anything. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix it, pleas tell me.
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Floppy disks aren't the most stable things so it's possible what data is on it is dead. It's also possible that heads on the floppy drive are dusty or dirty from sitting around. There used to be floppy cleaning disks that you put a drop of fluid on and stuffed into the drives. They are rather scarce now though.
I suspect your pram battery is shot and that is why the nubus video card didn't work when you tried it the first time. Did you try restarting holding down cmdopt+pr as Grant suggested just in case it forced the Mac to see the second card? I actually don't think it will work as that should force it to see the built in video card first but worth a try since it's been 10+ years since I've worked on a IIci.
There weren't any signs of leakage when you removed the old PRAM battery were there?

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