Alas I won't know if this works or not. It had gotten so bad that somehow the setup didn't even recognize that a valid version of windows xp was installed on the machine. It would no longer give me...

Right now the only thing that will boot up on it is the recovery console. If I go into safe mode or anything else, it tries to restart setup and reboots, even safe mode with command prompt. are...

First, the problem started this way. The computer was brought to me because it would dial up but would not open websites. I investigated and found that it would not resolve a host name. The DNS...