No internet access........driver problem

[bargepole]

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

Hi, think this is an afd driver problem

The problem 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?

[ChuckFickens]

click start > run and type into the run box "sfc /scannow" (no quotes) hit enter and have your windows disk ready.

[bargepole]

Hi, I ran that and boxed closed without reporting any problems so assume PC passed OK.