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Turns out I didn't hose my desktop after all! I took it up to my friendly neighborhood shop yesterday evening and went back this afternoon to check on it and he hadn't gotten to it. I had taken my bootable flash drive with Build 10074 on it to see if it would boot the 'puter and Yay! it did. So I went ahead and installed Windows 10 Build 10074 on it and tested right there. Everything worked as it should so I brought it home.
Hooked everything up and the *^&$()__&^$% stupid computer refused to boot! Frickle Frackle stupid jerk computer! So unplugged everything but keyboard, mouse and monitor and still no boot.
OK, go out into storage building, dig out old square monitor, bring it in, hook it up and holy crapola! the computer boots right up! I really didn't think it would be the monitor, because I could see BIOS setup and all that, so . . .
At any rate, I'm typing on my desktop with this butt ugly square monitor. It'll probably be a little while before I can get another nice 23/24" monitor again. Computer shop guy said he may be able to fix the monitor for me if it's a capacitor or something simple. He works on TVs, so I guess he's up to monitor work too. Better him than moi!