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japetus:
Hi all, a friend gave me his old winxp laptop to look at it as it seems unable to connect through wifi.
I tried to run windows repair using a usb stick and portable edition first, installing it and running it after, and I get the same reaction.
 Application opens and when I try to run it so that it can check the system, I get for a split second a blank screen with an error message which I am unable to log down, and system reboots.
Any ideas?

Boggin:
Is the XP version 32 or 64 bit ?

Shane never tested the program on the 64 bit version as it was so unpopular.

Let's see if we can get the laptop working.

As it's a laptop I assume it has wireless capability ?

Have you connected the laptop to your router's SSID and is there a yellow alert or red cross on the wireless icon in the system tray ?

I'm not familiar with XP but go into Device Manager/View/Show hidden devices and look for any yellow alerts, red crosses or black downward pointing arrows.

If the Network adapters look okay and none of the above, boot the machine into Safe Mode with Networking - sometimes an antivirus program can be the cause of connectivity problems and in that mode, all 3rd party programs are isolated.

It can also be because of an infection, but one step at a time.

japetus:
It is an old sub-laptop (asus eee pc 900) running 32bit winXP with sp2.
Can connect to internet only through wired lan connection, wireless adapter seems to be functional, recognizes available networks, but is unable to connect displaying the message "Acquiring network address" permanently... Otherwise seems perfectly functional.
The computer looks as having been hit by virus at some point, now checked and is clean, I have removed many unecessary programms and tried to renew ip via ipconfig /release and /renew but to no avail..
I'd appreciate any help regarding it, but it also puzzles me why the aio program won't run. As I can't seem to be able to have a good look at the error message -it goes off too fast- is there a log created somewhere I could locate?

edit: no signs of infection (red cross, yellow sign) and doesn't work either on safe mode with networking..

Boggin:
With XP 32 bit, it's essential that you install SP3 - that can sometimes resolve a lot of errors.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/microsoft_windows_xp_service_pack_3.html

Open a Command Prompt and enter these cmds

netsh winsock reset catalog

netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt

ipconfig /release

ipconfig /flushdns

ipconfig /renew

ipconfig /registerdns

shutdown /r /t 00

and then see if it will connect after the reboot.

japetus:
tried, but nothing happened...

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