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TCP/IP is completely fubar'd

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cubby1223

Lifer
I'm working with a computer with XP that seemingly has no tcp/ip. It shows up in the network adapter properties, but other than that it is completely missing from the computer. What's more disturbing is that in the device manager, when showing hidden devices, all the WAN Miniport devices have the yellow exclamation point next to them.

I made a ghost image, did a repair install of XP, but on the first reboot, I get a stop error. But if I go into safe mode I do not get the stop error, and get as far until XP figures out that we're in the process of installing, and forces a reboot.

I'm restoring the backup right now, so I've got some spare time to waste trying to think of a new approach.
 
Why not try XP's System Restore? Hopefully you're not one of the people who have turned this very helpful feature off. Set it back to the point just before you had problems with the networking components.
 
You can always delete the network adapter and reboot, which should totally remove the IP stack (assuming no other adapters are present). When XP autodetects the NIC, is should rebuild the IP stack.
 
I'll give this another shot today. We did get the nic to work by removing *all* network components and having Windows reinstall them. Then I went to add the wireless adapter, and it's giving the same issues, hopefully the same procedure will get the wireless adapter to work. This is not my computer, and it's never been connected to a network before, so who knows how far back this began, so I'm not going to try windows restore. And that program linked above, I had removed Winsock & Winsock2 and let Windows reload them, but that didn't do anything useful.

I'll just keep at it.
 
If you were good after uninstall/install and then you added a wireless network card then have problems again theres most likely a hardware conflict can you install the wireless adapter in different pci slot if not look at your irqs and see if the cards are sharing irq
 
Actually, it is a usb wireless adapter. And I meant to say above that when adding the wireless adapter, tcp/ip did not work with the wireless adapter, but the internal nic was still working.

Atleast this time, though, Microsoft's repair function figured out how to get things working again, so problem solved for now! Phew...
 
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