>I just fired up an older computer. Windows XP starts to load on the screen then the screen goes black and tells me to check the signal. My suspicion is that the computer need a new battery, because the monitor works fine for about 30 seconds.
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>Have you had this trouble? If you did was it low battery power?

Similar to Lutz' advice: nowadays I find it easier to just throw a Linux run from DVD/USB in no-install-mode
at barfing hardware: Is faster and for me easier to grok what is happening. But I am short tempered with
misfiring HW, so any attempts of Windoze helpfullness and clickbility moving with versions into other places
tend to make me fume eariler than usual - might be more my fault than windoze ;-)