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Oh bleh.. I was afraid of that... now to start the hunt for a battery that works in this thing! :( It has problem after problem.. the screen also scrolls up and down VERY fast on startup.. and blips and shakes all over. When the os loads it stops.. but it leads me to believe that there's something wrong with the screen.. I think a paypal claim might be in order here...

Yes It's me again... I've just moved forums lol.... In the power settings, my laptop claims it's battery is at 100%. When I run the battery optimizer, it also claims the charge is complete.. (it only took 4 min when it said it could take up to 8 hours..) However! If I unplug the ac adapter guess what happens :) boooooom! Not even a slight warning.. it just totally turns off. What should be my next call of action here, other than filing quite a claim on the person that sold me this... I was told the battery held a charge. Thanks for all the help!

Dalo- THANK YOU! It took me some time to understand it all but that really broke it down for me and was helpful. I followed the instructions to reset, and I reset the router and the cable modem to factory settings, once I did that, I rebooted my laptop and desktop and now they both work!!!! I feel bad that it seems like such a simple fix, but thank you ever so much!!! Thank you everyone that helped, this place is truly fantastic!

hi again Wolfey :) I know! But I swear that's what it said. I downloaded SP2 and 3 to a cd, tried to copy them from the cd to the lappie desktop and about 99 percent through they both said "Invalid MS-DOS function" in a pop up error. The same thing running it from the cd. Now I copied over that winsock fix and Firefox just fine from a cd, so I don't know what went wrong. At this point I'm just ready to try to reformat the entire thing with a REAL windows disk, not that compaq restore stuff I have. Edited because I didn't see Dalo's latest post!: I've been looking in there too Dalo, I just don't know enough about this router to know what I'm looking for. It is a linksys model BEFSR41. And I do believe I have them set up the way you specified. the cable modem is hooked into the "uplink" port - then I have my desktop pc ethernet cable to port 4 - and my lappie ethernet cable to port 3. They are separate cables. I hope that's what you mean.

Dalo - I'm pretty sure, I'm logging into the only name available. I was getting MS-DOS errors when trying to install the updates from the cd I burned. I'm still wondering about my router lights.. The laptop is missing the bottom light. and now I've noticed only the laptop can access the router, my desktop pc will not.. it just keeps saying connection reset.. have I messed something up?

Thank you Seth, I did try the winsock fix, but it didn't work....I installed Firefox from a burned cd but that also will not connect. I can't install IE 7 on the laptop without SP2 or 3, and it refuses to run the updates, even from the cd I burned. The router lights are confusing me... The laptop's port does not have all it's lights showing. On my router there are 3 lights for each computer, and the bottom orange one (marked 100) is not on for the laptop. http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsxp/images/using/networking/setup/68572-internet-port-small.jpg I have two greens and an orange for my desktop pc.. what does this mean? when the 100 light is not on? Thanks for all the help

It says it ends in exe on the download, but the name is so long, when it got to the disk, it got cut off. I used that link you gave me, but it won't copy over as is. Should i just manually add .exe on the file on the cd? Edit: Tried this and it didn't work.... man this is getting to me..

While this is copying over to my laptop, I noticed something else interesting. On the front of my linksys router are the green and orange lights. My desktop pic has a top flashing green, for link, a middle stagnant green for act, and a bottom orange for Diag? (whatever those mean!) The lights for the laptop only show the two green, for link and act.. the orange diag light is not showing... advice? Edit: Both SP2 and SP3 that I wrote to a cd won't run or copy to the new laptop.. either copying it to desktop or running from the cd gives me an Invalid MS-DOS function... at this point I'm ready to just file a paypal claim for this thing.. they said everything was in working order. Any help?

Thanks Maynardvdm - I found something like that in network, there isn't a settings button where your's shows.. its actually on the bottom and all greyed out. However there is a check box for Internet Connection Firewall, and I have unchecked that... It gave me the typical warning about being protected, but still it hasn't loaded any websites.... Danzil that is a good idea..I will try that right now...

Hi Mike - The funny thing is, this is xp home running SP1 - I can't find windows firewall ANYWHERE.. it's not in the control panel, there is NO security icon, and I couldn't find it on search. This compaq has a fresh install of windows - (via the compaq restore disks.. not sure how good that is..) So I'm not sure what to do! I do have a Win home cd for my other desktop, but is it ok to load the same cd onto a different comp? Any advice would be great! (Oh and sorry for the totally noob question but.. is remote assistance totally out because there's no internet?)

Thanks Mike, I couldn't find anything else in the router that looks like what I need.. Gosh I'm so stumped... even plugging it directly into the modem didn't help... it's got to be something with this laptop... I wish I could talk to the people that owned it last!

Thanks Dalo, I'm not sure WHAT that space for the address is for, it just says Mac address clone. I know that when I had other computers hooked up to this router, I never had to use it. I have my mac address from ipconfig /all... should I try this?

maynardvdm - Thank you! Yes it's already set like that. Dalo - I have a linksys router and there is a spot for a mac address (it's actually called Mac Adr. Clone) and gives me a few spaces to add a user defined WAN MAC address... but what should I put in that spot.. any linksys people out there know?

Thanks guys, Dalo - I looked all over my network settings and didn't see anything remotely like that.. this SP1 has even less options than my regular SP3 desktop. I can't even find any firewall options or settings. Kelly- I did the dnsflush but still no luck. I hope I'm not overlooking something simple.. The card appears to be working.. there's a light when you plug it in, and in the device manager it says it's working proper. Other than that I'm not sure what to look for as far as hardware malfunction. I'm open to any and all ideas!

Dalo, thanks for replying... Um, I'm trying to find that window and don't see anything like it in control panel or network. I'm running XP home SP1. Can you advise please?