September 13th, 2017, 02:50 PM
Actually you need at least SP1 first, then you can jump straight to SP3.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc507836.aspx
Make sure there is no proxy enabled in the IE settings.
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September 11th, 2017, 02:50 AM
Not much you can do without a working keyboard. Try another keyboard, PS/2 and/or USB.
Even if you get XP on there, you're going to have to hunt down all the drivers. That's another reason why the...
September 10th, 2017, 07:54 PM
You should have checked if there was a factory restore partition first. That would have reloaded XP to "out of the box" condition.
I'm guessing your friend doesn't have a set of recovery discs...
