thank you all for your help. want to hear the weirdest thing yet? not
knowing what to do i opened er up and noticed the fan cooling block on
processor was extremely clogged with caked dust/dirt, i removed it, sprayed
it all down nice and clean, re-installed(dry of coarse) and wah-lah! no
password came up- went right inti windows, ran it for over 3 days, non-stop,
no problems. Go figure!#@$%%#@%%^^


On 9/27/08, eryder <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> *************Have you tried starting the computer in safe mode and seeing
> if you can access the administrator account that way?
>
> If there is a password on that too, there is a program available free on
>> line called  "Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista Change Password / Registry Editor /
>> Boot CD", and it is available from
>>
>> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
>>
>> I have used it on computers I bought at auction.
>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> I got the above from a list and saved it for just this time!
>        Elliott
> ==========================
>
>
> At 06:34 PM 9/26/2008, you wrote:
>
>> I am working on a computer that was badly comtaminated with spyware and XP
>> Virus Protector. I installed a new hard drive and installed XP.  When it
>> loads windows, it asks for a password, but I have never entered one.  I have
>> used a utility to eliminate the password, looks successful, but still asks
>> for a password.  Must be something coming from the Asus BIOS, but I can't
>> figure out how to login. The message I get when I click on the pasword, is:
>> "The system cannot log you on due to the following error:
>> The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.
>> Please try again or consult your system administrator."  How can I get
>> around this problem?
>>
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