Ara T,
A good sense of humor is a valuable thing.
Thanks

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

This might sound daft but instead of going backwards with system restore - sometimes going forwards with MS updates helps.

I've often "solved" undetermined XP problems by just doing a windows update. I assume that the malicious software update they do sorts out a lot of trouble. I could be wrong I know virtually nothing about Windows... but at at work where they insist on using Windows I'm quite often the hero of the hour for fixing the computer again...

(I hope they don't read this! I'll loose all my Brownie points)

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Do you have an XP disc? If so have you tried booting from that into repair mode?

If worst comes to worst, and assuming you have backed up your data and it is a brand-name computer, you can power it down, disconnect all the peripherals (leave just keyboard, mouse and monitor, no internet connection either) and then boot it into system restore/reset (the process for that depends on the manufacturer, google will help you find it for yours). That will use an image on a hidden sector to completely overwrite your hard drive and reset your computer to the way it was when you bought it. You'll have to then install good AV software and spend some time on Microsoft's site getting patches, service packs and other updates, after which you can reinstall all of your programs and, finally, restore your data.

Good luck.

If that's so, how come I'm BROKE?

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For the unSaved, this world is the best it will ever get.

Clk's Ebay Stuff BUY SOMETHING NOW!!!

Weird, that was JUST said on the Dick Van Dyke show I am watching.

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1991 560 SEL / 185k miles
1992 750il / 17k miles - project car

It sounds like a motherboard issue. Did this all happen simultaneously ? My first thought was a bad IDE cable but that doesn't explain the USB not working.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

Because you bought a mac.

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

I deserved that my good Sir.

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For the Saved, this world is the worst it will ever get.
For the unSaved, this world is the best it will ever get.

Clk's Ebay Stuff BUY SOMETHING NOW!!!

fixed it for ya....

Mac's are Rocks!!!

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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