No internet/email access DHCP not starting

Desktop P4, XP sp3, cable connection via belkin wireless router. other computers working ok on network.

Hi,

This started after computer froze and had to power down. After powering back-up getting error message "TCP/IP network transport not installed". After searching about on the internet on my laptop carried out the following procedure

Click Start, Run and type DEVMGMT.MSC

In the View menu, click Show hidden devices

Double-click Non-Plug and Play drivers section

Double-click the entry AFD, and click the Driver tab

Set the Startup type to System.

Start the service. Note down the error message if any.

Similarly start the two other drivers namely:

TCP/IP Protocol Driver
NetBios over Tcpip

The AFD networking support environment had a yellow warning sticker on it, the driver had stopped and when I tried to start it I get the error message
the specified driver is invalid. The Netbios and TCP/IP drivers are started

Now I'm stuck, I've ran chkdsk /R with no luck. Other Google searches for AFD driver have not come up with anything useful.

Anyone any ideas where I go from here, can I just re-install the driver and if so how?

 

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Winsock reset didn't work, motherboard is MSI MS-6701 (medion oem)

 

Also tried sfc /scannow with no success.

Anyone any other ideas or will I have do a XP reload?

 

Left the PC switched off (at wall socket) for a couple of days, switched back on yesterday and the internet is was working ok. Looked at AFD driver and no yellow warning sticker.

When windows was loading briefly caught sight of a screen I'd not seen before, but it disappeared before I could note what it was and anyway wasn't really expecting the problem to have gone away.

Whether it was powering down at the socket or a combination of that and running
netsh Winsock reset and sfc /scannow I'll never know.

Thought I'd post this in case anyone else has similar problem.