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First post, by Greywolf1

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I recently picked up an hp omen desktop was told it was faulty I’ve given it a clean installed the cpu and scored some ram and everything seems to boot up fine. the trouble in having is I can’t seem to get a video output the machine has 2 hdmi ports onboard but I’ve got no screens with hdmi only vga and if I put a graphics card in that does have vga I still don’t get any output. Anyone have ideas to get this working.
Unable to install drivers as I can’t see what in doing.

Reply 1 of 5, by wierd_w

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Where do you live?

If you live in the USA, Walmart carries inexpensive converter pigtails in their stores, on shelves.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/BENFEI-HDMI-to-VGA … dsRedirect=true

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Failing walmart, office depot also carries them, as they are useful kit to send with business people who need to use video projectors, that usually prefer vga inputs.

Outside the USA, amazon, newegg, and aliexpress carry them.

I have no idea if costco, woolworths, or other eu centric big stores carry them, as I dont live there.

Reply 2 of 5, by Greywolf1

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Amazon has that exact brand for me looked at it today.
I borrowed a display connector to vga from work to test using an adapter but it didn’t work on the test computer
Do adapters really work?

Reply 3 of 5, by wierd_w

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I have used a great many, and they do in fact work.

Reply 4 of 5, by Matth79

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Ones with extra USB power tend to be more reliable than relying on the HDMI for power

Reply 5 of 5, by Greywolf1

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Dang already ordered one

Update the adapter works great.

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