Hard to work out what state it's in now from your post. So you think the system has booted but the monitor is dead, so you can't tell for sure? Or you can only choose between monitor only or external keyboard+mouse?
When I was network admin of the industrial IT network on the factory floor of Rolls-Royce we had to regularly change out the filters on the PSUs as that was the cause of 90% of the downtime on PCs. I recommend changing them regularly!
It's pushing up copious daisies.
We already knew that if the touchscreen was enabled, the mouse port and keyboard port were disabled; after the last time the screen failed...
I could probably hook a monitor onto the ribbon connector, but without mouse or keyboard; I'd only know if it had booted up or not.
The fact that I can't see it on the network, suggests not.
These Epos systems are incredibly expensive, even secondhand and ten years out of date like ours.
At time of purchase it was the best solution, since then things moved on and I've replaced the whole system with a secondhand iPad (S.H. iPad £100, Epos system (recon) £1200, new screen for Epos ~£250) and we can do more with the iPad.
So it's just the data.
PCs and laptops last weeks only at the Bunker. Anything with a cooling fan dies rapidly. We 've replaced it all with old iPhones and iPads. So streaming music/vids/tv, admin, till functions, customer databases et al are done on tablets. The only PCs left are mine and Polly's in the office upstairs where the effluent of sweaty climbers cannot penetrate.
And this after the dust extraction system was fitted!
Anyway, drive out and off to be read and all stuff from now on backed up to our personal cloud and server...
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