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    L502X, any way to send video into it and onto the screen??

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by lamer01, Apr 4, 2011.

  1. lamer01

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    I have a headless server and I was thinking of reinstalling windows on it but I would need to plug in a monitor. Can the L502x accept video in and display it on its monitor?
     
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    I don't think so. I looked for something like that a year or so ago, and ended up having to buy an extra monitor, keyboard, mouse, and a KVM switch to do installs on my servers.
     
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    Can You Use a Laptop as a Monitor? | eHow.com

    This might give you a way. Essentially you need a special solution that turns one of your ports into a display input and then software to throw it onto the screen on top of everything else you see on the screen.
     
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    Hmm, that would not work from the Bios only from windows. Based on my research, what I'd need is a crash cart USB device which costs around $400. They also have CAT5 based devices for more....
     
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    Might not be simple to install blindly but would installing a VNC server on the server and then having a viewer on XPS do the job for you?
     
    stonetrap, Apr 4, 2011
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