[mouser]

Thanks everyone more options there than i knew will study them for a day or so then try.

[Drango]

There is another quick and easy option that they teach you NOT to do during A+ curriculum. That is to "hot adding" (switching) you monitor. Hook up the old computer to your monitor, configure it, get it folding away, hooked up to the LAN and with the 'puter still ON, UNPLUG the monitor!

In most cases it will still run, folding away. However, only do this if you don't give a rat's rear about your equipment. Also try to make sure that when hooking the monitor up, the 'puter is turned off.