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[kspeel]

A friend is running windows XP. the modem for his cable connection is not working correctly and have replaced it and the network card also. Took it to a diagnostics center and the tryed diff modems and still nothing. Other than that the computer is working fine. They said he had to format his hard drive and start over. I find that hard to believe that. Any suggestions...Thanks

[SuperSparks]

Get the WinXP CD handy, then go to Start>Run and type "sfc /scannow" without the quotes (you don't get any report from the System File Checker, it just silently replaces and corrupt or missing system files that it finds).

[kspeel]

Will try and let you know

[frebo]

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