Hi,
Its a Hyundai M-Life HYM 365 SX with 80 Gb and 701 mb RAM. OS Win XP Pro was corrupted. I have lost its recovery CD and not able to get replacement. Formated HDD and installed Win XP Pro SP2 from borrowed CD using NTFS partition. It took 36 hours to INSTALL ( same even with Win 98 or Ubuntu installation - terribly slow ). After installation, screen shows M-Life logo - I have to manually boot Ctl, Alt Del ( This laptop has no FDD ) and it takes 25 minutes to COME to desktop. After that every thing is in slow motion. I used a USB drive to install all the drivers (which took ages!)which I got from Hyundai M-Life Website except Network Controller. Thus cannot connect to Internet. I downloaded many free antivirus scans - Hijack, AVG, Bootvis, Spybot S & D, SuperAntiSpyware, registry clean, memtest, scandisk, chkdisk etc, etc, but most AV requires internet connection. I changed the HDD from a good laptop with win 98 SE - it worked well for the first few minutes (and I was happy! ) but became slow afterwards. Now mem usage is constant 100 % and PC freezes and I have to work on safe-mode, still with mem usage 100 % but workable. The cooling fan is running OK and I use extra fan to cool. Unchecked start-up and services - no change. Processes high is explore.exe, svchost, crcss etc. When I stop any of these processes laptop shuts or shows blank screen. When I shutdown or restart, it always COMES to the propriety logo. Where can I download the network controller driver for this computer so that I can connect to the internet? Does the BIOS need to be updated if so where can I download? Is it a h/ware problem? No error codes are displayed. I would be very grateful if someone can help me. Thanks so much. Best Regards, Mahathev - MALAYSIAI have waited too long for someone to help me. Moderators - is there something wrong with my question - have I asked a forbidden question that many take a look and keep away. This is genuine and I really need some light on this matter. If anything is wrong with my question please inform me and I will log off forever from this forum. Just let me know where I went wrong. Thanks and still waiting. Best Regards, Mahathev
When Mods reply, they go from the oldest posts to the newest post. You have just bumped your post putting it bottom of the pile again.

Other forum members may be able to help, but I am not familiar with your problem.

I think it's just a matter of waiting, my friendQuote from: reddevilggg on December 03, 2008, 10:10:14 AM

When Mods reply, they go from the oldest posts to the newest post. You have just bumped your post putting it bottom of the pile again.

I strongly advise against going anywhere near PC World.
Their work is shoddy and they overcharge for everything.
I agree however that takign it to a computer shop might be an idea if no one here has any ideas.

I'd fix it myself, but that's beside the point.
Regarding PC World, their work is amongst the worst I've seen, rivalled only by Packard Bell in my experience.
Example: my uncle bought a laptop from there. The thermal paste was wrongly applied, so the CPU was overheating, one of the RAM modules came loose, the HDD wasn't plugged in properly, and they pulled a fast one by swapping the CPU for a much older model during one of the many times he took it in for repairs. Their customer service is just depressing too. I could trot out some more examples, but that was enough for me.
With the prices they're charging too I'd expect a solid gold computer.
You may have had good experiences, I'll steer well clear myself and would pass on that advice to anyone gladly if it will save them the pain my uncle went through.