[Elantra GT] Check Engine light

[Brian Nystrom]

Frank Gaydos wrote:

>Actually,
>  I just got this message!
>  My carrier, Verizon is dumping all the Elantra messages as spam.
>  My puter at home just died so I'm at work checking my email from the main verizon site.
>  Thought you went out of business since you got your Tiberon.
>   
>  Sorry for all the repeat questions.
>  The light finally went out after three fill ups.
>   
>  I'll be off line for the next few weeks at least till I can get a new computer.
>  My sound card was acting up so Itried to reinstall my driver but could not. So I went back to a reset point and all hell broke loose. Not sure Zif I'll ever get it going again. In addition to a missing winnt file there is a registry problem.
>  Yikes.
>  Needed a new one anyway.
>   
>  Frank
>  PS I think I had my calendar set wrong for awhile there.
>  :>o
>  
>
Here are some ideas for you:

- If you reinstall Windows over the existing installation, there's a 
good chance that it will get the sytem working again, allowing you to at 
least back up your data.

- If it still won't boot properly, try booting into Safe Mode by holding 
down the F5 key during the boot.

- If that doesn't work, you can try booting to the Last Known Good 
Configuration from the same menu.

- There are free utilities to help recover data from a system. Knoppix 
is a good one, if you can download it on someone else's system and burn 
a bootable CD.

- Worst case, if you format the hard drive and reinstall the operating 
system, you should be able to resurrect the machine, but you'll lose 
everything that's on it. Even if you're still going to buy a new one, it 
never hurts to have a backup system, even if all you use it for is 
backing up your new hard drive.

Good luck!

-- 
Regards

Brian