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If anyone can offer advice it would be appreciated. Would rather ask people I trust here before asking elsewhere.
I've a Packard Bell All in One from about 8-10 years ago whose screen gave out last week, but the PC part still works. This happened earlier in the year as a one off solved with a reboot so I have backed up most things, and have an adaptor for the hard drive once I take it apart.
I've tried most common suggestions to see if the screen can be revived and whether it's a driver issue or backlight issue with no success, but before I take the hard drive out I do want to see if I can link it to my TV to view the screen that way and sort out what I want to retrieve. There is no VGA output or HDMI though so I tried to get a USB to HDMI adaptor to try that but ended up with a USB 3.0 adaptor rather than the classic USB so need to look again. Just wondering if it is even worth pursuing that or if I'm better off just biting the bullet and going ahead and trying to retrieve the hard drive and get the remaining files that way.
I've a Packard Bell All in One from about 8-10 years ago whose screen gave out last week, but the PC part still works. This happened earlier in the year as a one off solved with a reboot so I have backed up most things, and have an adaptor for the hard drive once I take it apart.
I've tried most common suggestions to see if the screen can be revived and whether it's a driver issue or backlight issue with no success, but before I take the hard drive out I do want to see if I can link it to my TV to view the screen that way and sort out what I want to retrieve. There is no VGA output or HDMI though so I tried to get a USB to HDMI adaptor to try that but ended up with a USB 3.0 adaptor rather than the classic USB so need to look again. Just wondering if it is even worth pursuing that or if I'm better off just biting the bullet and going ahead and trying to retrieve the hard drive and get the remaining files that way.