[GRLUG] Will adapters do the job?

[Justin Denick]

Slax will start anything. But I do recall some optiplexes being picky about not using ps2 hid's 

How much nothing do you get--BIOS, POST, noise, numlock?

If it's sat for too long you may need to replace the battery on the board. 

-j


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> On Aug 23, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Eric Beversluis <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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