No longer able to logon to local LAN & disappearing Sound driver

[Guest]

My operating system is Windows XP Home SP2, the system has been stable for
months without any sign of problems.

In the last few days the following problems have suddenly appeared:
1) The connection to my local LAN workgroup has stopped working.
2) The sound driver disappears and as soon as I re-install it.
3) After 2/3 minutes of Windows startup the taskbar at the bottom of the
monitor suddenly, and prior to any mouse or keyboard entry, changes colour to
white and after that event the the Sound driver and the LAN connection stop
working. After reinstalling these drivers and a required Windows restart the
identical situation accurs.
Could it be a VIRUS attack.

Can any one, please, give any help?

Nevio

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

My operating system is Windows XP Home SP2, the system has been stable for
months without any sign of problems.

In the last few days the following problems have suddenly appeared:
1) The connection to my local LAN workgroup has stopped working.
2) The sound driver disappears and as soon as I re-install it.
3) After 2/3 minutes of Windows startup the taskbar at the bottom of the
monitor suddenly, and prior to any mouse or keyboard entry, changes colour to
white and after that event the the Sound driver and the LAN connection stop
working. After reinstalling these drivers and a required Windows restart the
identical situation accurs.
Could it be a VIRUS attack.

Can any one, please, give any help?

Nevio

Use System Restore to go back to a point well before your current
problems started.

 

[Guest]

Many thanks for your advice; I have just tried that and the system restore
point does not allow me to go back to more than two days prior which was the
date that I was made of aware of the problem and when I first re-installed
the audio driver. All earlier restore points seems to be not accessible. Any
further advice?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I suspect that your machine has picked up something nasty.
Boot it with your WinXP CD, then perform a repair installation.
Note that there is a risk of you losing all data files. If you have
not saved them so far then you need to take some additional
steps to do so before trying to fix the problem.

 

[NoConsequence]

Many thanks for your advice; I have just tried that and the system restore
point does not allow me to go back to more than two days prior which was the
date that I was made of aware of the problem and when I first re-installed
the audio driver. All earlier restore points seems to be not accessible. Any
further advice?

Nevio,

Please respond to the original thread instead of starting a new one.
Now you have two threads going, which will likely take off in two
different directions.......

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I will do that.

I suspect that your machine has picked up something nasty.
Boot it with your WinXP CD, then perform a repair installation.
Note that there is a risk of you losing all data files. If you have
not saved them so far then you need to take some additional
steps to do so before trying to fix the problem.