This can't be good...

Lot's of fun. I'm working on my daughters Jeep.

Hi Happy, When you start xPUD, does the Online icon on the Welcome screen (Home tab) turn blue, indicating the connection is working?

TomK, hope you got the Jeep fixed up alright. Dave, it does not turn blue. It indicates 'Offline". Dang it.

While we wait for a more intellegent answer from Dave… give this a try:

In xPUD… click on setting then Ethernet. select DHCP then click on Connect.

Let me know if it connects to the internet now.

Ok, I'll give it a shot, but it's going to be a while, as I assume I'm going to neeed to be hard-wired to do this (it kicks my wife off of her wireless connection, and she's still working).

Make sure the driver.opt package Tom referenced is on the flash drive prior to booting xPUD. If still no connection we can provide you with instructions for manually obtaining the information needed.

Dave, my drive reads this way: A file folder labled "boot" 45.9 MB A file folder labled "opt" 17.4 MB A file labled "Idlinux.sys" 13.3 KB A file labled "rst.sh" 2.99 KB A file labled "syslinux.cfg" 2.79 KB A file labled "vesamenu.C32" I'm still on hold for the hardwire…. she's gotta quit sometime….

Check the opt folder for the file driver.opt
If not there, download and place it there as instructed in post 22
Once you've done that, try the wireless connection in xPUD again while waiting for the hardwire.

Nope, no driver.opt in the opt folder. I'll proceed to download and place in file as instructed. I'm tired tonight, so this will not happen until tomorrow. Thanks, you guys, for your patience and assistance.

Ok. I did get the driver.opt downloaded to the zip drive, and then rebooted the affected machine but could not establish a wireless connection. System Information indicates it is offline. Under Quick Action, I clicked on WIFI, setup wireless connection. In the white box that popped up that said Setup Wireless Network, Choose a network: nothing is listed for me to select.

Then try it wired the first chance you get.

Ok, tried the hardwire, and still no internet connectivity. I even went to setting>Ethernet>DHCP>Connect… still no connection. Checked File again just for sport. File folder mnt still only lists sda1, sda2, and sda3.

Time to do a manual look for available restore points.
Boot xPUD and click the File icon, then expand the mnt>sda2>System Volume Information>_restore{some_random_number} folder.
In there you should see folders named RP?, such as RP5 or RP157
Open the highest numbered folder and see if it contains a folder named snapshot - if not, go to the next lower RP folder and check there.
Once you find a snapshot folder, look inside for a file named _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
Right click the _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE file and select Copy.
Now browse to mnt>sda2>WINDOWS>system32>config, where you should see files named SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM, etc.
Right click in this folder and select Paste to copy the _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE file into the config folder.
Now right click the SOFTWARE file and select Rename
Add the extension .old - making the file named SOFTWARE.old
Now right click the _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE file and rename it to SOFTWARE
Reboot the machine and see if it will start normally.

I've completed the tasks as given, trying to reboot as I type this.

Wow! I can see my desktop… where's the little "tear rolling down cheek" emoticon… Now what…now what?!? [sorry, must contain self…]