Use old Pavilion as 2nd monitor for new Pavilion

[Flailman]

Have old Pavilion 8.1 machine and a new Pavilion win11 machine. Any way to use old all-in-one machine as 2nd monitor to new machine? Old machine works fine but 8.1 no longer supported by Microsoft.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

The HDMI port in your AIO PC is output only.

You can upgrade your W8.1 PC to W10 if you want:

To upgrade from W8.1>W10, use your new PC running W11 to make a bootable USB installation flash drive with the Media creation tool from the link below.

Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

After the USB installation media has been created, plug it into your PC's USB port.

Do not boot from it.

Open the flash drive in Windows Explorer and double click on the Setup application file you see listed when you open the flash drive, to begin the upgrade process to W10.

After W10 has completed installing, you can install the drivers and available software from the support page.

[Flailman]

Thanks for the info on upgrading old machine. Will that upgrade allow it to serve as 2nd monitor to the already purchased Win11 machine?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome  

Unfortunately, you can't use your AIO PC as a monitor because the HDMI port only works in one direction-- output only, not input/output.