<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Slax will start anything. But I do recall some optiplexes being picky about not using ps2 hid's </div><div><br></div><div>How much nothing do you get--BIOS, POST, noise, numlock?</div><div><br></div><div>If it's sat for too long you may need to replace the battery on the board. </div><div><br><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">-j</span></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">--</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Right to Life of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Director of Information Services<br><a href="tel:616.446.6492" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">616.446.6492</a> / <a href="mailto:jdenick@rtl.org">jdenick@rtl.org</a></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><br>On Aug 23, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Eric Beversluis <<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>I've got an old Dell Optiplex GS110 I'm trying to start up (after it has</span><br><span>sat for many years) to check what's on the HDD before scrapping it.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I tried using USB-to-PS/2 adapters for the USB mouse and keyboard and a</span><br><span>VGA flatscreen monitor and got nothing. Should that setup work or could</span><br><span>the adapters or the flatscreen monitor be the problem?</span><br><span></span><br><span>If that setup won't work, I'll probably just have to pull the HDD and</span><br><span>check it out on a Linux box. I'm guessing that a computer of that</span><br><span>vintage won't boot from a live CD or USB, especially if I can't get in</span><br><span>to change the boot order in BIOS.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>grlug mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug">http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>