Around a week back, I went and brought myself a brand new Windows 10 Pro PC from an electronics shop along West Norwood high street; the cost was £130.00...it has a 128 GB SSD/8 GB RAM. I did not test it out when I arrived home, however; as the man inside of the shop already showed me it’s working fine...by opening up multiple web browser windows...pointing out just how ‘fast’ it worked.
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However, eventually, Tuesday, I decided to go try it out inside of my own home. I needed to use 5 wires...
1> The power leads (the shop assistant gave me one for free)
2> The internet cable (I transferred it from the older computer box)
3> The HDMI screen monitor leads (I used my Raspberry PI box lead)
4> Keyboard lead (transferred from old PC)
5> Mouse leads (transferred from old PC)
The new PC works fine. SSD technology...is so much ‘quicker’ than is HDD technology...HDD loads up in minutes/SSD loads in around 5 seconds flat. So, I felt really very pleased, indeed, with my purchase. I also tried opening 50+ web browser streaming video windows...all worked fine...with no lag...amazing.
Eventually, though, I decided to turn the new PC off.
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The next day/evening, I decided to turn the new PC back on, again...just to check that it was still working...having never rebooted it before.
I ran into loads of difficulties, no matter how many times I turned ‘on/off’ the new PC...nothing showed upon screen...even though I could see the new PC box lights turning both ‘on and off’.
Eventually, I decided to try plugging the TV end of the HDMI cable into a different free HDMI port; turned the new box on again...and, this time it worked...that is, I could see the Windows 10 Pro Desktop appear on screen.
The trouble was, try as I might to correct it, the Win 10 Pro GUI would not show on the screen, correctly. The topmost icons seemed to disappear off screen...by only showing the bottom part of the icon. Plus, the Windows Taskbar...would only half way appear...so, you could see the top part/but, not the bottom part.
I tried changing screen resolution size from ‘recommended’ size...up to...to largest...all the way down...to smallest; absolutely nothing quite worked.
I also tried moving the Taskbar to ‘show small icons’...to...’display sidebar at the right side of the screen’...still nothing looked quite right.
Eventually, I got bored of trying to fix the new PC layout; and, just gave up...decided to turn it off...and, then, at least, I could go back to using my old PC.
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By far the biggest shock I got Wednesday evening...was when I switched the cables back from the new PC to the old: Keyboard/Mouse/Internet cable. (Didn’t need to change Power chord/or, HDMI chord...as these were already separate.) The old PC, now, refuses to work...?! Instead, I’m getting an error message which says...doesn’t recognise drive...grub error mode> I’m not even sure what the hell is ‘Grub error mode’?!
