Cable questin for laptop

[Chemical King]

What sort of cable would I need to connect a base unit to my laptop so that wen i turn on the base unit, it cums onto my laptop screen ??

[rafael]

so you wanna use your laptop as a seperate screen? for a desktop? why not just get a second monitor..theyre quite cheap these days

[manwithin]

What sort of cable would I need to connect a base unit to my laptop so that wen i turn on the base unit, it cums onto my laptop screen ??

Its tuff understanding what you want to do? So let me get this straight I assume you mean you want to take the graphics output from your PC and put it into your laptop to use the laptop screen as a display???

Laptops generally have a graphics output connector, so you can connect them to a projector or other external monitor - but I've never seen a laptop with a graphics input connector. Now I'm not saying it can't be done but you will have to buy a lot more then a cable to get this to work.....

[rafael]

give laptop model and desktop model and some specs...we can take it from there...list your connections too

[Chemical King]

sorry i should of bin more specific. I have a base unit that was hand built. Now the monitor for that is fukd. I bought a new laptop recently and wanted to use the laptop to read the display from the base but stil have my laptop running.

the base unit has the standard VGA port which the monitor normaly attatches to and the laptop has the same, exept it is black and not blue

[Chemical King]

anybody else help me with this ??

[zimmy]

yah...ur wasting your time...not gonna happen. Buy a monitor.

If you were trying to do the opposite then it'd be fine...but your not.

[Chemical King]

yah...ur wasting your time...not gonna happen. Buy a monitor.

If you were trying to do the opposite then it'd be fine...but your not.

i have got a monitor but just dont want it clutterin up my living room.