CONCLUSION (for now) of: urgent shopping advice for NUC-like desktop

[Jose I Diaz Bardales]

On 8/7/21 3:53 AM, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 13:11, Marco Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
> 
>     Hello list.
> 
>     Last month I said to myself "after the summer, I must really buy a
>     new desktop, because this one, thanks to Linux, has been running for
>     so many years that it may break at every moment". My desktop must
>     have heard me, because something inside died this morning, and now
>     it won't start.
> 
>     No data were lost, but now I must order a new desktop as below asap,
>     to meet some deadlines and not lose any vacation day!
> 
>     ...
> 
>     Size/form factor: NUC-like, due to change in furniture next month,
>     this thing can only stay attached behind a monitor, or in my lap.
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> it soon turned out that the best if not only compromise between the all 
> advice received and my own constraints, especially the two above, was a 
> DILC Nuc "10th gen i5-10210U 4.20 ghz Ram 16gb, M2 Ssd 256 gb", at 639 
> EUR. I got it two days ago, installed Ubuntu 21.04, restored my $HOME 
> from backups without problems worth mentioning, and thanks to that I am 
> almost done with all the work that was due this week.
> 
> The next, not urgent things to fix or know, on which feedback is still 
> welcome, will be:
> 
> 1) check out monitor connectivity. I have a good monitor with VGA and 
> DVI ports, which I am not replacing until it breaks. I installed and am 
> working with a VGA cable plus HDMI adapter, because those were the only 
> option available when the computer arrived. Works well, but since this 
> morning I recovered an HDMI cable and a HDMI/DVI adapter, I tried to 
> switch to them, assuming that "all digital would be better than digital 
> to analog". But the monitor says "NO signal at all, sorry". So now I 
> have to be sure if its DVI port is broken, which almost certainly is the 
> case I fear, or if it is some option to reconfigure in/from Ubuntu or 
> BIOS??? Thoughts?

Some monitors have an option to automatically detect the input source.
In your case you might have to tell the monitor to use the DVI port 
instead of the VGA port manually using the monitor's menu.

You also want to check your VDI adapter is the same as your monitor. If 
I remember correctly there are different types of DVI technology.

Hope this help.