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Howdy, y'all,

One of our users had local disk problems, and a desktop tech used Recovery
Console to
repair the disk with CHKDSK. The result was a found.000 folder with almost
320 dir*.chk
subfolders.

Firstly, the PC is an HP Presario built on an Asus A8N-LA mobo, which HP
calls the Nagami
GL-8E with 4GB. Chipset is the NForce 4.

However, problems remain. Firstly, networking is missing. When I run netsh
interface show
interface I see error messages including: "WARNING: Could not obtain host
information from machine:
[machine name]. Some commands may not be available."

And "access was denied."

Windows Task Manager under the Networking tab shows "No Active Network
Adapters Found" but
Device Manager shows no problems with the NVidia LAN adapter.

Windows thinks that it needs to be reactivated.

WMIDiag fails with 0x80070005 error. The log file says that the error is
due to DCOM
security modifications.

I tried to propagate permission entries on %windir%\system32\ but no
improvement.

dcomcnfg abends before displaying anything, so I wonder if the COM catalog
is corrupt. MS
published an article about fixing this:
http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/315296

We're stuck on this. Thanks in advance for repair advice.

XP SP3 is EoL. The OS is corrupt and you have a possibly failing hard disk.

This should be considered the impetus to replace the platform with a Win7
PC.

--
Dave
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