Well, I have my new computer.  It’s all hooked up, set up and I’m going through the first start up process.

Which has been going on for about 2 hours, now.

I seem to be stuck in to very slow loop.

It’s gone through the process of selecting language, country, keyboard, and time zone.  At the beginning, I also had to log into our wifi.

I think that’s where I made my mistake.

The default option was our Netgear system, which boosts our wifi through the house.  In my corner where I have set up my office, the log walls interfere with the signal, so I also have a wifi booster.  Plus, my old computer had wifi antenna that my husband installed for me. 

This computer came with wifi antenna, so that’s taken care of.

Anyhow, once the basics are set up, the system then goes to “checking for updates”, followed by a display of “just a moment…”

All of which takes several minutes.  Especially the “Just a moment…” screen.

Then it restarts itself.

After the restart, it goes back to selecting country, language, etc., then I get this.

Well, obviously, the PC is plugged in, or this wouldn’t be showing at all.

The following options then all say to select “next”.  I font get any instructions to connect to wifi, as it says in number 2.  So it acts as if I’m at number 3.

If I hit “next”, though, it goes to “checking for updates”, and the loop continues.

Yes, I even tried a hard shut down.  When I r4started, it went straight to the “choose your country” screen, and is now back at the “checking for updates” screen again.

We may have to dig up a cable to hook up to the router physically, because it seems to not be able to hook up to the wifi.

With my old computer, for some reason, it would no longer allow me to save the password to connect to the Omnii netgear booster.  I would just connect automatically to our Starlink router directly.  If the signal got too weak, I could log into the booster, but if I lost signal there for some reason, it want back to the default and logged me in.  It couldn’t log me into the booster, because the password had to be manually input.

With the new computer, I never had a chance to put in the password for both.  Just for the booster.

Which is not part of the loop I’m stuck in.

Oh, look.  It’s restarting again.

My husband is now looking for the cable.  Hopefully, it’s long enough to reach across the house.

*sigh*

The Re-Farmer