I'm trying to enable my laptop to act as a monitor and keyboard for my desktop computer. Can it be done? And if so, what cables and configurations would I need? I found a site where someone had accomplished it using a PCMICA card with video input, but I don't know the specifics on those cards and which I need, so if you have an answer for that dilemma I'd be very grateful.
Either one would help me out greatly!
2007-08-28 14:13:29 · 4 answers · asked by William K 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
It can be done, but your laptop would be destroyed afterwards. All you have to do is take out the keyboard and LCD panel, and then find the right power and connector (very hard) and you're all set.
2007-08-28 14:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by Cheese Lover Bob 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The laptop has no video input. It has no way to connect the keyboard to a different system (How bad is your desktop keyboard that you want yo use the laptop one? Usually it is the other way around!)
You could use diagnostic software that allows you to control one computer (the desktop) from another (the laptop) over a Ethernet connection. But I really do not see why you would want to do this, it is going to be painfully slow for any real tasks.
Even if you got a video in PC card for the laptop to receive a video signal from the desktop, there is no way to connect the laptp keyboard to the desktop.
2007-08-28 14:57:03 · answer #2 · answered by Simon T 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the pc makes use of a LVDS sign to the video exhibit. the pc would use a VGA or DVI sign. they are actually not well matched devoid of a VGA to LVDS converter field. i seen some some years in the past on ebay and have been given one for a similar purpose. it grew to become into $40 9 at that factor. i won't discover it anymore (ebay). save looking and notice once you come across one. that's the only thank you to do it. EDIT: The instructable published in the previous by the different guy isn't what you like. that instructable is definitely on the thank you to show a working pc right into a multi function video exhibit style of situation. yet demands the pc to artwork. not the thank you to trun the liquid crystal exhibit right into a video exhibit.
2016-12-16 07:12:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the VGA plug on your laptop is to run a external monitor.
Cheaper to buy an LCD monitor.
2007-08-29 01:09:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋