Can you help me save my computer?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

I tried to install Ubuntu a few times in a row, and each time it gave me an error and told me I should find out if my CD/DVD is dirty, my CD/DVD drive is faulty or needs professional cleaning, or if my hard drive is dead and needs replacing.

So I tore apart my apartment and found my Gateway Restore DVD for Windows XP from 2004. I restored my shit to 2004 style. I couldn't for the life of me get it to connect to the internet. I found my install CD for my wireless card and installed the drivers, and Windows could detect my router and told me it had 64% signal strength, but it still claimed the wireless card was somehow not connected. I uninstalled and reinstalled and tried every configuration I could think of, to no avail.

So I plugged in an ethernet cable and got online. I went to Windows Update and instead of updating directly to Service Pack 2 I installed some other crap first. As soon as the updates finished my computer rebooted over and over and over again. As soon as the Windows startup sound ended, it would go black, go to bluescreen of death, and reboot, all super fast before I could read anything, and it did this repeatedly until I unplugged it.

I waited a minute, plugged it back in, and it immediately booted itself up like a zombie computer, and got back into the reboot loop. I put the Ubuntu disc back in but it still wouldn't load Ubuntu. I put the Windows disc back in, reformatted/restored the entire thing again, and installed Windows Service Pack 2 and then Windows Service Pack 3.

I haven't had any problems and I'm copying all my badass files back onto here. I just gotta find out how to get online without this annoying ethernet cable across the living room.

Thanks everybody for your kind words and encouragement during these hard times.



tldr; My computer is back. BQQYAH.