You need to enter the bios and change your boot order. Put the cd drive as first preference and then save settings and reboot with the XP Home disk in the drive. Watch the screen as it boots you often need to press a key when requested to initiate booting from the cd.
Ok. I don't want to speak to soon but it appears that it is working again. This is what I did:
Installed USB Modem (Modem 2), seemed to install ok but I still couldn't connect to it. Took modem2 to a friends place, he could connect to it via ethernet so I upgraded the firmware and returned home...
rvnguy,
Thanks for the response. I agree, clean install would be the way to go but there are a couple of things that still really concern me. First and foremost, I don't know what the problem is, it reappeared after a repair install so who's to say it won't after a clean install...
Ok, I spent 4 hours last night trying to crack this puppy without success but I have narrowed down the possibilities.
First I booted into safe mode and ran a full scan with an updated copy of ewido - nothing. I tried netsh winsock reset and ipconfig /dnsflush - nothing.
After taking home...
Bill,
#1 The system has 1Gb Ram so...? I will disconnect the router tonight and upgrade the firmware on another system tomorrow if req'd.
#2 Known good cable going in tonight.
#3 Hadn't seen that but will keep it in mind, since Hotfix isn't readily available, I'll leave this one 'til...
If Knoppix wasn't connecting either, I too would think hardware but Knoppix seems to be running flawlessly - the Networking component anyway.
I have already been through FAQ779-4625, will try it again tonight after malware scans.
I assume you mean the very well written (*wink*) FAQ608-4650...
Thank you for your replies.
@rvnguy
Power Management is off on the network adapter as suggested.
Will try the flushing the dns cache.
The FAQ (excellent work bcastner) and mskb article I found and worked through before I posted here.
@bcastner
I have hard reset the router about 6 times already...
Ok, this thread continues from here - http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1133633 when I thought the problem was fixed.
This computer is only a couple of months old and has functioned flawlessly until last week when the network dropped. It is a standalone system connected via ethernet to...
Fixed! Phew, after reading here - http://forum.alcohol-soft.com/index.php?showtopic=14109 I found it was related to two files a347bus.sys & a347scsi.sys that halt the system after having SP2 installed on top of them, which I did when I did the repair reinstall (slipstreamed). The two files in...
Thanks rvnguy, but I just got back out and tried a few things - now have more info. I booted into the recovery console and did a chkdsk /r, no change. I managed to disable the auto-restart and got the BSOD STOP:0x0000007B (0xF79F7528,0xCOOOOO34,0x00000000,0x00000000)
I'm looking at this mskb -...
The ethernet connection to my modem died abruptly at 6:41pm last night. The rest of the system was working fine at this point. I use the onboard lan on ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe. I can't ping anything (destination unreachable), Device Manager says this device is working correctly. Tried system restore...
May be worth trying to boot into Knoppix or another non-Windows environment and deleting the file. Back the file up first if possible, just in case.
or
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_undeletable_file.htm
Daniel.
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