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A faulty power supply seems likely, but unfortunately, mine isn't covered by the repair program. And their nearest store is a half hour drive away. I wonder if there's a way to test it. Sometimes it can stay on for a week or more, then shut off several times in a couple days. Jill

I have no idea what slipstreamed means. It's XP SP2.

Of the possible workarounds suggested in those, the only one that might help me is to see if the Omnibook CD drive at work is interchangeable with my CD burner drive. It sounds like a couple other people had the same problem installing off a CD burner, but not when they switched to a CD drive...

OK, I can get into BIOS- I just have to pull the hard drive loose before restarting. But when I try to boot from the CD (after pushing the HDD back in), I get this message: Boot CD-ROM type: Non-Emulation Booting CDBOOT: Couldn't find NTLDR So I'm wondering- I have a W2K installation disk...

F2 is not getting me into BIOS anymore.

Nope, didn't work. I'm giving up until I can find another XP CD to see if it will get past the error and finish the installation.

I'll try those startup things. I looked at the CD again, and it's not OEM. I saw OEM on it before, but it turns out it actually said 'Not for OEM...' The laptop's an HP zt1000 series. The laptop was part of the things left in a furnished condo my dad bought. No original CD. However the CD I...

It's OEM. The laptop has no floppy drive, altho I can connect one to the parallel port, but I tried that with another CD drive, and it wasn't powered. I tried putting in a W2K disk, but it insisted I put in the XP pro. Originally, I could tell it to boot from CD by pressing F2 to get into BIOS...

I did try cleaning the disk, and can't see dust or scratches. The drive also looks clean. But the only option it's allowing is to continue setup from the disk. It won't go to where I can remove a partition. (Initially, when I was at that point, I had it install in the existing partition, but...

I was given a few years old laptop, and considering it had been used mainly for viewing porn, I decided to install the operating system from scratch. Using a Windows XP Pro, SP2 disk, it got part way through, then had an error, and stopped. Now it won't let me do anything but continue setup of...

I have finally had the oppurtunity to see if doing either of those works. No, they don't. It stayed on a long time- over a week, but then quit twice yesterday, and again this morning. Any other ideas? Thanks for trying, Jill

Sometimes it just turns off without warning. I've checked for a loose plug, but that's not it. It's very random- sometimes I'll be doing something when it turns off, sometimes I'm just reading something on the screen. It does it several times a week, sometimes a couple times in a day. When it...

Just a follow-up here. The twin computer has a working wifi button, which I tested before changing the operating system. Configuration wasn't completely smooth, but last Thursday, I could see the network once and set up printing on the network printer. I had trouble getting online, and tried...

I had written awhile ago, and see my post isn't here, so maybe I hit the wrong thing and it didn't post. Anyway, after a restart, the wifi light was steady again, and nothing I did (push and release, push and hold for a couple seconds...) would get it back to flickering. I think the button is...

I can't believe it! I can see my network!. I haven't actually done any of the things you've suggested, just played with the wifi button. It's now flickering instead of steady (I thought since it was blue that it was on, then noticed that when I pushed the button nothing happened to the light. A...

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Yes, it sees the card, and told me details about it. I think the problem is the windoze driver. I tried ndisinstaller to see if a GUI would help me, and it said the driver failed. I've decided to give madwifi a try,after seeing that it has a linux driver for my type of card, so I'm moving this...

ndiswrapper is not solving my wifi problem, and there was an indication that the driver was the problem. So I've decided to try madwifi, since it seems to have an Atheros driver. I downloaded a TAR file, and was able to have it extracted to a root folder. But I couldn't understand how to...

I tried those but nothing happened. I opened Network Tools. Under devices it shows the correct configuration for ath0, which it calls an Unknown Interface. It also shows an Unknown Interface (wifi0), but when I select that, a popup says the Interface does not exist.

lsmod shows ath_pci, but not ndiswrapper. lspci tells me the wifi is by Atheros Comm. Inc., but I knew that. Can't find anything about madwifi. It's not in the Synaptic package manager (where ndiswrapper is) or the Add/remove applications list. ifup wifi0 gets me: Ignoring unknown interface...