Booting question

**Mooseknuckle** · #1 16th Jul 2008, 09:46 AM

Am i able to boot a tower to my laptop screen or is the vga port on the back of my laptop just for hooking up multiple monitors? I am assuming that this cannot be done, but i just thought i would ask.

**Dave Hybrid** · #2 16th Jul 2008, 09:48 AM

The VGA on the laptop is an output, as fas as I know what you want cannot be done.

**Mooseknuckle** · #3 16th Jul 2008, 09:51 AM

ok thank you dave, and while we are on this let me ask....so i can basically go out and buy a new monitor of my choice and connect it to my laptop and run it using the new monitor? and what happens to the laptops screen if the video is to the new monitor?

**Dave Hybrid** · #4 16th Jul 2008, 09:59 AM

Yes, a new monitor can be added to the laptop creating dual screen.

**Mike0001** · #5 16th Jul 2008, 12:31 PM

ie, either the same display on both or a split screen.

As for the first question, you can use the laptop to login to the tower over a network, hence do what you wanted.

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