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Laptop Network Dead
Running normal stuff on Win XP Pro laptop.
Laptop connected via WiFi and Cat 5. All good except that CPU was at 000%. Process Explorer showed svchost pulling all remaining CPU so I killed it. Big mistake. Tried to access LAN or Internet was a no go so I booted. Tried to access LAN of Internet again and still no go. Tried to repair network and still no go. Seems that just killing svchost wiped out drivers or setting or whatever. Firewall was on and still is. I have three virus etc things that check browsers although I was not running a browser at the time of problem. I have two virus scanners that I run manually and they show no problems with viruses before or after problem. What to do ? Other than a restore. My CD broke and I did not make a bootable USB. How to fix network ? Step by step please. |
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XPerience wrote:
Running normal stuff on Win XP Pro laptop. Laptop connected via WiFi and Cat 5. All good except that CPU was at 000%. Process Explorer showed svchost pulling all remaining CPU so I killed it. Big mistake. Tried to access LAN or Internet was a no go so I booted. Tried to access LAN of Internet again and still no go. Tried to repair network and still no go. Seems that just killing svchost wiped out drivers or setting or whatever. Firewall was on and still is. I have three virus etc things that check browsers although I was not running a browser at the time of problem. I have two virus scanners that I run manually and they show no problems with viruses before or after problem. What to do ? Other than a restore. My CD broke and I did not make a bootable USB. How to fix network ? Step by step please. Do you have a System Restore point ? Go back in time a day, to the state of yesterday. My assumption is, that something in the registry got changed, but I really don't understand how that could happen. About the worst that should happen by clubbing baby seals like that, is the OS could shut down, and it should still be a clean shutdown. Now, if you'd just turned off the power on the laptop, or pulled the battery while it was running, that would be a different matter. ******* The nice thing about WinXP, is it was supposed to take one snapshot per day, which should be capturing the registry. A restore point also gets set, if you install a driver. Look through the "calendar" for a point in time, just before you got busy with your club. The System Restore feature excels, for short trips back in time, so going back a day or two is the perfect usage case for it. Going backwards three weeks, not so much. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../bb457025.aspx ******* I don't really know if it's possible to make a WinXP USB installer. The Windows 7 USB maker probably wouldn't work for that. Maybe one of the others (Unetbootin, Rufus???) might do it. With the tools of that sort, you want proof first they have an exact entry for "WinXP Installer CD", so you know they have a working solution. As in some cases, the developer has to "do something special" for some of the supported items in the list. And you can't just take any old CD, and make bootable USB out of it. I wouldn't even try the hard drive "dual partition" WinXP technique, because you need a floppy drive for that, and not many computers have a floppy when you need it. In that method, the first partition is FAT32 and empty, the second partition is FAT32 and has a copy of the i386 folder from the CD. The floppy diskette used, would be an MSDOS boot floppy of sufficiently modern construction, to be able to read the D: partition with i386 on it. That's how I did my first WinXP install. Paul |
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Paul wrote:
Maybe one of the others (Unetbootin, Rufus???) might do it. With the tools of that sort, you want proof first they have an exact entry for "WinXP Installer CD", Rufus page sez: (2) Non exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work with ... Windows XP (SP2+), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, ... (but I have a TinyXP .iso and CD that I can't put on USB with anything) -- Mike Easter |
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On 6/12/2017 8:19 AM, XPerience wrote:
Running normal stuff on Win XP Pro laptop. Laptop connected via WiFi and Cat 5. All good except that CPU was at 000%. ?????000%??? Does "all good" mean that you could access the web? Process Explorer showed svchost pulling all remaining CPU so I killed it. Big mistake. Tried to access LAN or Internet was a no go so I booted. Tried to access LAN of Internet again and still no go. Tried to repair network and still no go. Are we to assume that you rebooted your router/access point/modem? Seems that just killing svchost wiped out drivers or setting or whatever. Firewall was on and still is. I have three virus etc things that check browsers although I was not running a browser at the time of problem. I have two virus scanners that I run manually and they show no problems with viruses before or after problem. What to do ? Other than a restore. My CD broke and I did not make a bootable USB. How to fix network ? Step by step please. |
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?????000%??? means CPU all used up and none available for other application. Does "all good" mean that you could access the web? I have both WiFi and Cat 5 connections. WiFi goes to the Web and yes was working Cat5 goes to my LAN and NAS and was working After problem, BOTH stopped working even after boot. All networking was down. |
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 08:19:12 -0700, XPerience
wrote: Running normal stuff on Win XP Pro laptop. Laptop connected via WiFi and Cat 5. All good except that CPU was at 000%. Process Explorer showed svchost pulling all remaining CPU so I killed it. Big mistake. Tried to access LAN or Internet was a no go so I booted. Tried to access LAN of Internet again and still no go. Tried to repair network and still no go. Seems that just killing svchost wiped out drivers or setting or whatever. Firewall was on and still is. I have three virus etc things that check browsers although I was not running a browser at the time of problem. I have two virus scanners that I run manually and they show no problems with viruses before or after problem. What to do ? Other than a restore. My CD broke and I did not make a bootable USB. How to fix network ? Step by step please. Try this http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/deta...ck_xp_fix.html Over half a million people have downloaded it. I know, more people use Win 10 so it might not work. But at least it's "reversible". []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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