[GRLUG] Will adapters do the job?

[Eric Beversluis]

On Sat, 2014-08-23 at 21:39 -0400, Justin Denick wrote:
> Slax will start anything.

Regardless of BIOS boot order settings?

> But I do recall some optiplexes being picky about not using ps2 hid's 
('hid's'?)
> 
> How much nothing do you get--BIOS, POST, noise, numlock?
I did get two beeps during POST, HDD sounds like it's working, and there
was a light on the keyboard, don't remember if it was the numlock. So
maybe the ps/2 adapters are ok. Would the flatscreen monitor rather than
CRT cause a problem?

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

If it comes to that I'll just pull the HDD and figure a different way to
test it and wipe it if necessary.
> 
> -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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