Hi
Been having some trouble here. A relative of mine is now working from home and wants to connect their laptop to the home pc screen. This we can do but we would like both PC attached at the same time so that if the laptop is switched on the laptop screen shows on the home PC screen and if the home PC is turned on it shows on the screen.
They bought an adapter which comes out of the monitor and has 2 connectors. (don't know the name) These can connect to cables coming from each PC. If one is attached (i.e laptop to home pc screen) it works fine. If both are attached (home-home and laptop-home) the screen goes off regardelss of if the laptop is switched off.
The was difficult to explain and came out slightly confused. What I really want to know is how to connect two computers to one monitor. Do I need a switchbox? Thanks for any help you can give.
Been having some trouble here. A relative of mine is now working from home and wants to connect their laptop to the home pc screen. This we can do but we would like both PC attached at the same time so that if the laptop is switched on the laptop screen shows on the home PC screen and if the home PC is turned on it shows on the screen.
They bought an adapter which comes out of the monitor and has 2 connectors. (don't know the name) These can connect to cables coming from each PC. If one is attached (i.e laptop to home pc screen) it works fine. If both are attached (home-home and laptop-home) the screen goes off regardelss of if the laptop is switched off.
The was difficult to explain and came out slightly confused. What I really want to know is how to connect two computers to one monitor. Do I need a switchbox? Thanks for any help you can give.