external monitor help

ddelehanty

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Oct 3, 2013
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how do i know if i can hook up my monitor to my computer. its a dell e5400 and an asus vg248qe. right now they are connected (not working) by vga cord and vga to hdmi converter. i know there has to be a way im just to noobie to do it