'Net cable and system restore not working :-(

[Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry]

Hello :-)

When I got up this afternoon, I hit the power button on my laptop as usual
while on my way to the restroom. When I got back, it was off and the battery
light was fading on 'n' off like it does when the battery is critically low
and my laptop has gone on standby. Thinking nothing of it, I hit the power
button again. My laptop came off standby and went right back to standby. I
hit the power button again and it did the same thing again.

Then I noticed that I had been trying to start my laptop on a nearly dead
battery because the power cord had apparenty come loose from the adapter the
last time I was handling it. For the last time because I superglued it back
in place. I hit the power button again and everything appeared to be
normral. Until I tried to go somewhere on the 'net. I soon figured out that
*nothing* that requires a 'net connection to work would work. Even though
the wireless connection shows as "very good" signal strength and a speed of
11Mbps. I tried plugging the ethernet cable in and still nothing works. I
am connecting now on dialup.

I tried to remedy the problem by running system restore 6 times on 5
different restore points on 5 different days. Each time, even though
everything looks as it should when the System Restore shuts my laptop off in
doing a restart, when my laptop comes back up after restarting, I get an
error message along the lines of "the system could not be restored." I tried
running Registry Toolkit V1.2.9 and Registry Mechanic V5.1.0.224 and that had
no effect. I still have the recovery CD's that came with my laptop, but I
don't know which program to recover. Those same CD's can wipe my laptop and
reinstall the origional WinXP Home in place of the WinXP Pro that's on it
now, but I'm not about to do that.

What do I need to do to get the 'net cable and system restore working again?

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

"Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry"
om> wrote in message
...
> Hello :-)
>
> When I got up this afternoon, I hit the power button on my laptop as usual
> while on my way to the restroom. When I got back, it was off and the
battery
> light was fading on 'n' off like it does when the battery is critically
low
> and my laptop has gone on standby. Thinking nothing of it, I hit the
power
> button again. My laptop came off standby and went right back to standby.
I
> hit the power button again and it did the same thing again.
>
> Then I noticed that I had been trying to start my laptop on a nearly dead
> battery because the power cord had apparenty come loose from the adapter
the
> last time I was handling it. For the last time because I superglued it
back
> in place. I hit the power button again and everything appeared to be
> normral. Until I tried to go somewhere on the 'net. I soon figured out
that
> *nothing* that requires a 'net connection to work would work. Even though
> the wireless connection shows as "very good" signal strength and a speed
of
> 11Mbps. I tried plugging the ethernet cable in and still nothing works.
I
> am connecting now on dialup.
>
> I tried to remedy the problem by running system restore 6 times on 5
> different restore points on 5 different days. Each time, even though
> everything looks as it should when the System Restore shuts my laptop off
in
> doing a restart, when my laptop comes back up after restarting, I get an
> error message along the lines of "the system could not be restored." I
tried
> running Registry Toolkit V1.2.9 and Registry Mechanic V5.1.0.224 and that
had
> no effect. I still have the recovery CD's that came with my laptop, but I
> don't know which program to recover. Those same CD's can wipe my laptop
and
> reinstall the origional WinXP Home in place of the WinXP Pro that's on it
> now, but I'm not about to do that.
>
> What do I need to do to get the 'net cable and system restore working
again?

Are you reporting that you are unable to make a a connection
to the Internet? If so then please explain your current networking
setup:
- Wireless adapter?
- Access point?
- Cable modem?
- ADSL router?
- Other?

[Bert Kinney]

Try running System Restore from Safe Mode.

All About System Restore in WinXP
http://bertk.mvps.org


--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org


Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry wrote:
> Hello :-)
>
> When I got up this afternoon, I hit the power button on my laptop as
> usual while on my way to the restroom. When I got back, it was off
> and the battery light was fading on 'n' off like it does when the
> battery is critically low and my laptop has gone on standby.
> Thinking nothing of it, I hit the power button again. My laptop came
> off standby and went right back to standby. I hit the power button
> again and it did the same thing again.
>
> Then I noticed that I had been trying to start my laptop on a nearly
> dead battery because the power cord had apparenty come loose from the
> adapter the last time I was handling it. For the last time because I
> superglued it back in place. I hit the power button again and
> everything appeared to be normral. Until I tried to go somewhere on
> the 'net. I soon figured out that *nothing* that requires a 'net
> connection to work would work. Even though the wireless connection
> shows as "very good" signal strength and a speed of 11Mbps. I tried
> plugging the ethernet cable in and still nothing works. I am
> connecting now on dialup.
>
> I tried to remedy the problem by running system restore 6 times on 5
> different restore points on 5 different days. Each time, even though
> everything looks as it should when the System Restore shuts my laptop
> off in doing a restart, when my laptop comes back up after
> restarting, I get an error message along the lines of "the system
> could not be restored." I tried running Registry Toolkit V1.2.9 and
> Registry Mechanic V5.1.0.224 and that had no effect. I still have
> the recovery CD's that came with my laptop, but I don't know which
> program to recover. Those same CD's can wipe my laptop and reinstall
> the origional WinXP Home in place of the WinXP Pro that's on it now,
> but I'm not about to do that.
>
> What do I need to do to get the 'net cable and system restore working
> again?

[Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry]

Bert's reply did the trick :-) Thanx anyway for your reply :-)

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

> Are you reporting that you are unable to make a a connection
> to the Internet? If so then please explain your current networking
> setup:
> - Wireless adapter?
> - Access point?
> - Cable modem?
> - ADSL router?
> - Other?

[Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry]

That did it :-) Thanx :-)

"Bert Kinney" wrote:

> Try running System Restore from Safe Mode.
>
> All About System Restore in WinXP
> http://bertk.mvps.org

[Bert Kinney]

Glad to hear it work. You will now want to investigate the reason why
System Restore will not function in normal mode.

Two suggestions. One is to make sure the system is clean of infection.
Virus and Spyware removal and prevention steps:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/spyware.html

The next would be to perform a clean boot. This may help identify the
what's interfering the restore process.

How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310353

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=316434

How to troubleshoot by using the System Configuration utility in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310560

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org


Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry wrote:
> That did it :-) Thanx :-)
>
> "Bert Kinney" wrote:
>
>> Try running System Restore from Safe Mode.
>>
>> All About System Restore in WinXP
>> http://bertk.mvps.org