ethernet driver not working and WinXP wont boot w/o disc??

suitesugarsuitesugar florida
edited January 2010 in Science & Tech
I'm completely losing my mind on this one.. Everything I have is very old and obnoxious but bare with me.


I ended up with a nasty virus last week and after it locking me out of everything, I decided to reformat. Of course, I don't have a disc to do this anymore (people like to steal) so I found a Dell Windows XP Professional Repair disc at work. I'm using an old as hell NF7-s v2 and I made sure to burn the drivers to a disc before the virus took full control. I checked to make sure there were no Dell drivers installed and since there weren't, I went ahead and installed the Nvidia drivers. They were all recognized and everything was happy but the internet is still not working. I have it directly plugged into my cable modem and it is showing that it's connected but limited. I forget if i'm receiving or sending but i'm doing one, not the other... (at work now) I tried adding a new connection and nothing happens and I cannot repair the one I have. Not to mention - the OS will not boot without the disc. I changed the boot order in the bios and everything LOOKS fine but i'm getting a system boot error without the disc and with the disc it loads fine.

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  • suitesugarsuitesugar florida
    edited January 2010
    I decided to ditch the Dell disc and got a friend to lend me a legit copy so now everything is running smoothly except i'm still getting the boot error. If the system disc is in the cd-rom it boots fine but without it i get this error:

    Verifying DMI pool data...

    Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM:
    Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM:

    DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK
    AND PRESS ENTER

    I've checked the boot sequence in the bios and I have HDD1, HDD0 and then CD-ROM. I've tried many different combinations and reset the bios a few times but nothing seems to work...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    Try booting to the Windows Recovery console and issuing the following commands:

    Fixboot
    Fixmbr

    Then restart the PC.
  • suitesugarsuitesugar florida
    edited January 2010
    I tried this a few times thinking "I must be doing this wrong" but i'm still getting the same error w/o the disk... checked the BIOS again as well just to make sure i'm not crazy but all looks good. /shrug
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    Back at the windows recovery console, try this instead:

    bootcfg /rebuild
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