A couple years ago, when I started having trouble with this old lap top...oh sheesh that must have been almost 3 years ago, anyway, I let the husband of one of my former coworkers "fix" it for me. He designed the thing so I figured he could fix it.
Of course he didn't tell me it had a design flaw, he also didn't tell me he installed a bogus version of Windows XP, so here I am reformatting and installing the original version that came with the computer becasue the new "Validation tool" won't let me get online with the old version.
It's just as well. I haven't put much on this computer yet anyway, so I can start fresh. I can't believe how well it's working now that I fixed it