DHCP Client will not start on XP laptop

[DKMr]

A user of mine's laptop crashed during a virus scan and since then it was stuck in a continuous reboot cycle until I had it boot in Last Known Good Configuration. Safe mode would not work either.

Now the laptop is running, however, the DHCP Client service will not start with the error: "Could not start DHCP Client service on local computer. Error 1075: The dependency does not exist or has been marked for deletion."

I have check the dependencies for this service and they show Print Spooler (which is running) and AFD Networking Support Environment. I can not find this AFD as service. What is it? MS Technet does not seem to have the answer. Can anyone help please!?!

 

[FredUG]

I'd boot to the XP cd and do a repair install.

Good luck,

FredUG

 

[GlenJohnson]

Are you sure it was a simple scan? Sounds an awful lot like

http://www.bl.com/moshe/text/quiddities/norton_errors.html

Check it out.

Glen A. Johnson
"To fear the worst oft cures the worse."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616); English dramatist, poet.

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[DKMr]

Thanks for the tips guys. However, I tried the repair installation and all the other DHCP tips in the link and had no luck. XP will not let you remove TCP/IP, so I tried uninstall/reinstll the NIC. Same problem. Also in the registry under DependOnSevice it has no mention of SYMTDI or NISDRV. Hmmm.... so I just had to reimage.