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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?
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?