Re: Mindboggling weirdness
- From: Dudely <ab3331@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:41:59 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks to all who responded. I'm afraid I'm still getting used to
googles usenet interface so I apologize in advance for the mistaken/
missing followup attributes.
In any event, since I'm running off the new hard drive, I didn't run
any virus scans as suggested by Brian. I did however get the network
and icons going. My mamaboard diskette does indeed include network
drivers, but ASUS in their infinite wisdom decided to hide them behind
the graphics drivers. So unless you decide to install the graphics
drivers you never see the network drivers. Therefore, it never
occurred to me that XP didn't provide a network driver. Anyway,
thanks for that!
I can now see the Internet, and after some poking around in my head, I
was able to remember how to get my LAN functioning and can see the
other computer in my workgroup. Yay. Victory.
Next issue in the saga. I"m now running a new hard drive as you know,
and by mucking with the BIOS I'm able to boot it as drive H: I didn't
know that was possible, yet here I am. And, my old not working so
well installation is still known as C:
I like that. It means, in theory - that I don't have to reinstall the
whole world, as the registry will still know where to find stuff - it
hasn't moved. However, I'm reluctant to just experiment without
someone holding my hand. I had planned to do the following.
Copy my Desktop folder from C:\Documents and Settings\Dudely\Desktop
to H:\same path I'm assuming, I'll then have my usual desktop
restored, allowing me to go about my usual business.
Then I realized, my new version of XP doesn't have the registry
settings, so I still have to re-install everything, right? Any simple
way around that? I know if I was confident that I had a good hive on
the old drive I could probably just copy it over... but, I'm not so I
probably shouldn't. Worse, the newly installed programs may start
referencing as H:, so I'm not sure if that will mess me up or not.
Any ideas on that?
Last problem in this saga... when I reinstalled XP, I goofed when I
created the user Dudely, and I put a single quote in as I hit Enter.
So my user is now Dudely' See the quote? I've tried a variety of
methods of getting rid of it, but I can't. I tried renaming the User,
Deleting the user, renaming the directory, adding a new user then
deleting the old one, etc. Nothing works. Do I have to reinstall
this thing yet again in order to fix the user?
Thank you all again!
On Jun 3, 2:36 am, "Doug" <data...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Dudely" <ab3...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:173e2e9b-a3be-42f5-87fc-3d5d96c54673@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Yesterday I wrote:
| I broke
| down and bought a new disk today. I did a fresh XP Pro (SP2) install
| on it and booted it. The first thing I noticed is there were no icons
| - other than the recycler icon. That's not right is it?
Yes a fresh install of XP will only have the one icon.
| The next thing I noticed is that I can't connect to the Internet - I
| have a DSL connection. In fact, I can't see the Win2000 computer on
| my LAN either. I can't ping my DSL modem. IPCONFIG shows totally
| blank. Network wizard won't do anything since it doesn't seem to find
| the NIC. I unplugged the Ethernet cable
Sounds like you need to install your motherboard chipset drivers and/or NIC
drivers. (chipset drivers first others in any order)
| Thanks in advance.
.
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