Well, dodged a bullet today. (Maybe?)
The registry was reported corrupt and the pig won’t boot. Repair didn’t.
Argh!
I had tried the rescue disk that came with the platform from Dell. It didn’t do anything good for me.
So I dusted off one of my XP installation disks and ran “repair” using that. It threw the box up into checkdisk, which ran. Didn’t report any errors. May or may not have fixed anything. But it did then allow the box to boot into WXP. (Yeah!)
On the theory that this might be my last chance to visit with my data. I pulled out my WDDRIVE with WDSYNC on it and took a back up. (I usually do my weekly backups on Monday!)
Now, I fearlessly did a cold restart.
That worked but it wasn’t not connecting to the home lan. I tried using WXP, the Intel ProSet Wireless utility, and the VWBBIE (Verizon Wireless Broadband utility also manages the WiFi). Nothing worked.
Argh! Squared!
So I power cycled everything in sight. Ran the Intel Wireless debugger.
Couldn’t think of anything else to do, so on a hunch, I changed the WiFi SSID. Shouldn’t have made any difference. Changed the password as well. (Big deal. Any script kiddie can bust this “security”!)
Disabled PGP. Disabled ZoneAlarm.
Power cycle everything.
Argh! Tripled!
Verified that the BackRoom DELLDESK could connect thru the wifi router to the net. Verified that the OLDDELL notebook could get to the net via the wireless.
So it made me focus on the LUGGABLE as the problem.
Deleted all the Intel configurations. Went to the DELLDESK, changed the SSID and password again. Rebooted the router. Power cycled everything in sight again. And then readded the Intel configurations.
And, voila, the pig put on its roller skates and took off!
So, that wasted a Sunday. Sigh.
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