Network destroyed DLL's

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Jeff Albright

I have a PC and laptop with XP and a wireless Linksys 11b
network. Five days ago, the system, which had been
working well for about 2 months, went down, such that we
could no longer get the internet on the PC, even though it
is wired to the router. The IP address lists a 169.
number. After trading in the router and wireless card and
the PC's ethernet card, we are still unable to connect.
Spent time on support call with Linksys and our broadband
provider, and it appears that the problem is with XP, as
whatever happened to the network has damaged some dll
files on the PC.

Anyone have any suggestions about how to approach this
problem? Can we just reinstall XP over the other version
to repair it? Will the Service Pack help?
 
I have the same issue. I am using a wired LAN access card
previously and it is fine for internet access through
VDSL. Recently, I bought a wireless router from PCI 11Mbps
and I find that the wireless access is fine until I
installed a Samsung Anycam on the system (it cannot work
propoerly). The ip assigned is 169.... through DCHP. Then,
I need to restart from previous healthy starting point to
resolve the issue. However, everytime when I try to
install the webcam, the internet access will be faulty.
Anyone know how to resolve? The webcam can work properly
in wired LAN configuration previously.

Re: If I force to assign the IP 192.168.1.2, it can ping
the router but still unable to browse internet. It is
quite sure XP issue.

Anyone who can help please email directly to me. Million
thanks.

Patrick
 
"Jeff Albright" said:
I have a PC and laptop with XP and a wireless Linksys 11b
network. Five days ago, the system, which had been
working well for about 2 months, went down, such that we
could no longer get the internet on the PC, even though it
is wired to the router. The IP address lists a 169.
number. After trading in the router and wireless card and
the PC's ethernet card, we are still unable to connect.
Spent time on support call with Linksys and our broadband
provider, and it appears that the problem is with XP, as
whatever happened to the network has damaged some dll
files on the PC.

Anyone have any suggestions about how to approach this
problem? Can we just reinstall XP over the other version
to repair it? Will the Service Pack help?
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How did you determine that some dll files are damaged? Which files
are they?

That type of problem is very unusual in XP, which has a built-in
system file protection scheme. It prevents the over-writing of dll's
that's so common in earlier versions of Windows.
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