[GRLUG] Will adapters do the job?

[Eric Beversluis]

I've got an old Dell Optiplex GS110 I'm trying to start up (after it has
sat for many years) to check what's on the HDD before scrapping it.

I tried using USB-to-PS/2 adapters for the USB mouse and keyboard and a
VGA flatscreen monitor and got nothing. Should that setup work or could
the adapters or the flatscreen monitor be the problem?

If that setup won't work, I'll probably just have to pull the HDD and
check it out on a Linux box. I'm guessing that a computer of that
vintage won't boot from a live CD or USB, especially if I can't get in
to change the boot order in BIOS.