[GRLUG] Will adapters do the job?

[Justin Denick]

If the LCD has a VGA port, it shouldn't matter. But if the video driver is very basic and the LCD is very high end, you could justify trying an older LCD or a snap in PCI just to see. 

If the numlock key is responsive and the network/hd lights are working, you can be sure the box is on and probably working. 

HID is a stupid acronym for human interface device. 

I think ps is peripheral serial, but I'm wrong more often than not. 


-j


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> On Aug 23, 2014, at 10:03 PM, Eric Beversluis <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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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