My wife's computer, the newer one that is just like the one I'm on now (yes, I bought two of them thinking they were a good deal), is having problems booting up this morning. It is turning on then almost immediately shutting off. I'm not sure if it's a hard drive or pwr supply problem.
As I'm unhooking it from the setup I have so she can use two different computers with the same monitor/keyboard/mouse, I'm trying to think of how to test it to see which is the problem, the HD or the pwr supply.
I'm in the act of getting her old computer 'on-line' safely as it hasn't been connected to the internet since Feb of this year. She needs it for her sewing programs which won't work on Win 10 and I didn't want it to update 'automatically' on me so I cut it off from the outside world.
Just as I'm about to update Win Defender, we have a power outage.
WTF?
Power is back on, for now, Win Defender is updated (took a while to download 9 months of updates) and she's back on-line with the old computer for now.
My next dilemma is that the old monitor I have as a spare sitting out in the garage has an old VGA connector and DVI also. This newer computer only has HDMI out's for the monitor.
So, do I buy a cable to hook it up, get a new monitor and sub in one of the ones we're currently using for the diagnostics or just go buy her a new computer altogether?
What would you guys do?
She really wants a new Windows 7, 8.1 machine but those are like hens teeth these days I suspect.
I'd love to get her back to just ONE machine.