XP Emachine

[delrey]

Has it installed any service packs yet? With past experiences, nothing will run on XP without the latest SP's installed.

 

[learninmypc]

As I was taking the side off, I noticed it says XP Home has been pre installed so I found it online & was in the process of installing it when it asked for the product key, I entered it as I was looking at it but it kept telling me it was incorrect.
I don't know what the heck to do.

 

[learninmypc]

Has it installed any service packs yet? With past experiences, nothing will run on XP without the latest SP's installed.

Yes, ALL MS updates had been installed prior to previous post.

 

[learninmypc]

@delrey , @Cycloid Torus @jobeard answer me this, This pc came with XP Home installed which I didn't know till today.
I had XP Pro 32 bit installed with ALL MS updates but only IE 8 would partially work. Once I found out XP Home had been on it I tried but it wanted the Product Key which it wouldn't accept so I had a CD with XP lite SP1 on but no go. Finally I went back & now got XP Pro back on & getting MS updates. Question is why did one OS require Product Key but not other. TIA

 

[learninmypc]

There are quite a few of those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Athlon_XP_microprocessors

They all support SSE. It does look as if there are only a few that support SSE2. Do you see a brand and model number written on the motherboard. There should be a label around the CPU or card/memory slots. There should also be a board revision number, that may be of importance. Bare with me, I'm not familiar with AMD and need to look everything up as we go. But if you don't want to bother, just say the word.

http://www.ascendtech.us/emachines-au31-motherboard-101618_i_mbaemac101618.aspx

 

[learninmypc]

As of now, its XP PRO 32 bit. SuperAntiSpyware ran on it fine yet neither Firefox or google chrome will install. I am going to try using portable apps.

 

[learninmypc]

I'm out of ideas, & maybe patience

 

[cliffordcooley]

So you should be seeing this on the front panel?

Which is AMD Athlon XP 3000+ AXDA3000DKV4D and has Socket A (also known as Socket 462.

A little digging and it seems AMD supported SSE2 with their Athlon 64 processors. And from what I can tell your motherboard only supports 32 bit processors. My best solution would be to use an older version of browser that doesn't require newer CPU features.

Old versions that still support non-sse2 CPUs. These links are the best I can do without installing them myself. Please be warned I don't know anything about the site linked. All I can say is WOT didn't flag them on my end.

• Google Chrome 34 -
  • http://chrome.softwaredownload.co.in/chrome-34-0-1847
• Firefox 48 -
  • https://firefoxofflinedownload.blogspot.com/2016/08/mozilla-firefox-480-final-offline.html
• Opera 21 -
  • ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/21.0.1432.67/win/

The ftp link will not post correctly. You will need to copy and paste it. For some reason the forum software wants to add http:// to the front of the address.

 

[learninmypc]

Yes, I saw that on the front. I will try your links with fingers crossed

 

[learninmypc]

I got firefox installed but its telling me techspot is an insecure website although the url its showing is https://www.techspot.com/community & it won't let me in

 

[learninmypc]

SUCCESS, I had to change the time & date to get in here. Now just to find an AV for this 32 bit headache

 

[learninmypc]

Finally got an OLD version of Avast installed gonna scan

 

[DelJo63]

Now reflect on all the stuff with which you have become familiar (y)

 

[learninmypc]

Thank you for your patience jobeard (y)

 

[learninmypc]

@cliffordcooley , @jobeard , @delrey @Cycloid Torus I want to thank you for your patience. Avast came up clean. So far so good. Using these websites helped http://www.oldversion.com/ http://www.oldapps.com/

 

[DelJo63]

One last caution - - older versions of Avast *may* not be able to look for rootkits or scan your boot sector for infections - - don't get complacent "just because you have some version of an AV program".

Best wishes

 

[learninmypc]

Thank you, I'm trying to find a version of Mbam that has a root kit scanner. I have one for my W10 but....

 

[learninmypc]

Got some MS updates & now IE & FF are having https problems again. I'm on break

 

[learninmypc]

Evidently Time & Date are playing games with a time machine, I've reset it again & all is fine, so far.

 

[DelJo63]

Enable the NTP service to sync to International GMT; set your time zone and you should be done.

 

[learninmypc]

Is this what you're talking about? I found it by googling Enable the NTP service
& there was this below it http://www.itprotoday.com/management-mobility/how-can-I-enable-network-time-protocol-ntp-server

 

[DelJo63]

OOPS; didn't mean to be so obscure. I just enabled autostart on the windows service Windows Time.

Here's a screenshot of my registry:

 

[learninmypc]

I fear the registry, but will try #EEeekkk

 

[learninmypc]

Need some help with an Anti virus. Had Avast installed but it won't let me register it. Tried AVG but it won't let me update the database so I have comodo installed & hopefully it'll work.

 

[DelJo63]

What do you know about Taking Ownership? This is likely a permission issue due to the manner of recovery/install.