Spent The Day Re-imaging a Windows XP System
Posted by: dragonblogger // Category: Technology
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My son’s computer was fried from too many installs, uninstalls of various software pieces over the last year and a half. My five year old was rough on his computer and I was rougher still downloading and installing every freeware or demo trial game I can find in his age range to entertain him. Alas, the machine just starting having problems and slow downs that could I could tolerate no more. I re-imaged the system and instead of finding bliss, I found 4 hours of frustration but in the end I was triumphant.
The reinstallation of Windows XP went well, I didn’t have to backup anything because my son’s computer is for nothing but play and games. He is too young to do email, word or create any documents, so mostly it is the equivalent of a guest system at this point for him. The reinstall went fine but I ran into many problems with there being no drivers by default in Windows XP for the HP Pavilion he was using.
Not a problem, using my USB Flash Drive I went to my other computer and found all of the necessary drivers, put them on the USB Flash Drive and copied and installed them on my son’s computer. Everything should have worked except the moment I installed the driver for the USB Wireless Card, the System had a blue screen of death caused by the SYS163u.dll driver which was the one for the USB Wireless stick.
I could reboot in safe mode, and I could reboot with the Wireless USB unplugged, but if that thing was plugged in, Immediate blue screen every time. I could find no solution, and I had to drag my son’s PC up into my office and hard Ethernet it to the Internet. I patched the heck out of it, Windows XP SP3, every driver, every update, Avira Antivirus, everything I could find and get current I did. In the end after updating all of my drivers and finding a different driver from Encore’s website, I was able to finally get the USB Wireless Card working and after 4 hours my son’s PC is fully function with 3 games waiting for him tomorrow morning.
I did all of this just to get KidZui installed, I had heard good things about it and wanted to try it with him for myself. I will do a blog post about KidZui after a week or so of going through it with my son, it is supposed to be a great kid friendly browser and online network where they can play thousands games, activities and parents get daily logging activity of what their kids are doing on the browser. Not that I suspect my 5 year old is doing anything, but I am just going to test various things for the functionality at this point.
-Dragon Blogger
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Tags: Kidzui, microsoft, reinstalling Windows, windows xp, Wireless USB Key, XP Crash
January 27th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Same problem,but can’t find another driver for usb key.
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