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My HP Pavilion has HDMI and USB ports. How can I connect an old Dell VGA monitor to my laptop?

Raquib

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My HP Pavilion has HDMI and USB ports. How can I connect an old Dell VGA monitor to my laptop?
 
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They do have usb to vga adapter too, but just like hdmi to vga adapter, sometime they work, sometime they don't
read the review on amazon.
Well, laptop has interface X and Y, and Monitor has interface Z. What do you do?

First off, USB is not a video port so that's out.

So that leaves you HDMI and VGA. How very lucky of you, they do sell HDMI --> VGA converters. Google/Amazon.
 
They do have usb to vga adapter too, but just like hdmi to vga adapter, sometime they work, sometime they don't
read the review on amazon.
 
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