Hook up tower to laptop?

[Doer.]

I made a thread in a different sub-forum, but I think this forum is more appropriate. I want to hook up a tower to my laptop and use my laptop as my mouse/keyboard/monitor. I heard you can use RDP to do this. I have a HP pavilion dv2660se.

Somebody in the other sub-forum told me its impossible without the vga IN. I have a VGA, but I'm not sure if its and input our output. Anyway to tell?

 

[Doer.]

I called HP, they said its an output

 

[atomic tofu]

vga on your laptop? vga on laptop is out
manual usually tells you what's what

aside from that, I don't believe you can hook them up as you want
you could make a home network (or not) and remotely control in various ways, as the mentioned remote desktop (if that is what you mean by rdp)

 

[peterhuang913]

http://www.techist.com/forums/f76/can-i-hook-tower-up-my-laptop-166818/

 

[Kharn]

If you are wanting to use your keyboard mouse and monitor from your desktop you can use a KVM switch I believe.

 

[Doer.]

I looked up some KVM switches and they will work. Only problem is I think you need a wireless keyboard. Which is not really a big deal. I'm gonna see if I can somehow still use my laptop keyboard.

 

[atomic tofu]

you don't need a wireless kb for kvms...you just need a kb that is not your laptop

 

[Doer.]

Yeah, since I need to get a new one, I'll just get wireless anyways.

 

[Preacher]

Click on Synergy in my sig. Your done.

 

[Doer.]

Click on Synergy in my sig. Your done.

It only support KM not KVM. But definitely something to keep handy, really cool program.