VGA to USB? for entering Bios with an external Notebook

[alphatessi]

Hi there,

i have a problem at work.

I am a field service engineer (fancy word for service technician) and we service machines running a small windows machine.

There are cases where i need acces to the bios. Most of the times the machines have internal screens connected via a vga port.

Some machines have an external screen that i connected via a vnc. but that is useless when i want to do something in the bios.

Now the question: is there a way to get the display output from vga with some kind of adapter in my notebook? Obviously there is no display input, so i hope ther is some kind of usb-in and some software to show it?

I Dont want to carry around a screen just for this case.

 

I hope someone has an idea! thanks in advance

[HanZie82]

3 minutes ago, alphatessi said:

Hi there,

i have a problem at work.

I am a field service engineer (fancy word for service technician) and we service machines running a small windows machine.

There are cases where i need acces to the bios. Most of the times the machines have internal screens connected via a vga port.

Some machines have an external screen that i connected via a vnc. but that is useless when i want to do something in the bios.

Now the question: is there a way to get the display output from vga with some kind of adapter in my notebook? Obviously there is no display input, so i hope ther is some kind of usb-in and some software to show it?

I Dont want to carry around a screen just for this case.

 

I hope someone has an idea! thanks in advance

You could use a VGA capture card.
But working my differ between devices, and i dont have much hope of it beig a great producut, but here something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Capture-Streaming-Teaching-Conference-Broadcasting/dp/B08GYXZC3D