Hey man, I have brought worse machines back to life. Could be something really simple.

If the hard drive is still in tact, that's all you need to recreate your system on the new machine if you want to do that. I am happy to walk you through it, by text, or by zoom / Skyoe whatever.

If it were my system, depending on how old your failed system is, the easiest scenario is:

(1) Download to a USB drive, all the hardware drivers, CPU and bios files compatible with your new machine
(2) Prepare a way to backup your new system (hard drive, server or cloud)
(3) Determine whether the hard drives of the two systems are compatible. If not, another more complicated scenario is required
(4) If so, remove the new hard drive from your new machine and protect it somewhere. I usually make a clone  of a new PC and use the clone and save the original drive
(5) Remove the old hard drive from the old machine and install in the new machine.
(6) Boot it up. There should be minimal errors. Windows will automatically install the necessary new hardware drivers. You might need a short call to Microsoft to revalidate your old license on the new machine.
(7) Install the machine specific hardware and bios drivers that you saved on the USB drive, rebooting as necessary
(8) Backup your system. You should have your old environment back, running on new hardware.

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Oh, maybe I ought to get a new keyboard as well. I wouldn't want to get key-bored … 

How about that one? 



But seriously, good luck on the new install!

It could be a power supply issue.

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It could be a power supply issue.

Right, but I'm sure you've noticed by now that he so excited about getting the new toy that he has no desire to fix the old one! 

Well, you are not entirely wrong. My old PC is more than 10 years old. It's starting to show it's age. First I had a memory problem. Windows memory test didn't find anything, but Memtest86 found a single bit that failed. Apparently it was in a part of the memory that is seldom used, because I very seldom had any problem with it. So I ignored it, thinking that if it got worse I'd have to find out which memory board that had the problem,. and replace it. Or should I replace both memory boards just to be safe?

Then this happened. I had the same suspicion as rdodolak - power supply. But this just convinced me that it was indeed time to retire the old war horse. I do have a laptop, but I hate working with that type of keyboard. Give me a "real" keyboard and a mouse any day.

I hope to have it up and running some time next week. Until then I'll just be surfing on my iPad.

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No more excuses!!! Keep the Tools Train rolling!!!

Oh dear! Will it be OK if I just think tools until next week? 

You did try "dead-resetting" it, right?

Unplug the power, then press and hold the power button for 10-15 seconds (you'll probably wee the power-LED flash and the fans move a bit). Re-plug it it and try and start it.

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An old Canon printer, an old Brother label printer and an old CanoScan scanner. Plug-and-play? Hardly. Canon didn't have printer drivers for win 10 or win 11. I got it working with an older driver, though, after some twiddling. The scanner actually seems to work with the drivers that came with it on a CD. And the label printer works with the win 10 drivers that I downloaded. So that's one hurdle cleared.

If you have trouble with the scanner, may I suggest VueScan from Hamrick Software. I have been using it for a few years now with an old HP ScanJet 5370C which wouldn't work with Windows 10. There is a trial version to test it with your scanner.

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