Network dropped, now XP won't boot - Urgent

[Happo]

The ethernet connection to my modem died abruptly at 6:41pm last night. The rest of the system was working fine at this point. I use the onboard lan on ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe. I can't ping anything (destination unreachable), Device Manager says this device is working correctly. Tried system restore - no luck. Thinking initially it was a Windows problem I tried everything I know, ip /release /renew, Winsock Fix, sfc /scannow etc.
Looking in the Event viewer I see the following Error Message at the same time:
The IP address lease for 192.168.0.2 for the network card with network addressblah) has been denied by the DHCP server 192.168.0.1 (The DHCP Server sent a DHCPNACK message)
Tried uninstalling, reinstalling network drivers, controllers etc - no go.
Then did a repair reinstallation, got through setup but system in a rebooting loop after that.
Disabled Onboard LAN in BIOS, performed another repair reinstallation, system in reboot loop afterwards in same manner.
I am writing this now using Knoppix, there is no problem with the onboard lan at all.
I just can't get xp to boot, tried safe mode and it freezes on loading a particular file acp347.sys I think - I can't check without losing all my settings in Knoppix.
Please help, this is very important. Thank you.

 

[rvnguy]

Happo,

As you can't access SafeMode I would try these fixes for a starting place.

Install and Use the Recovery Console for Windows XP (Q307654)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q307/6/54.asp

Use recovery console to run chkdsk /r
then fixboot:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=314058

Easy to follow recovery console description when unable to start computer.

http://www.digitalwebcast.com/2002/03_mar/tutorials/cw_boot_toot.htm

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[Happo]

Thanks rvnguy, but I just got back out and tried a few things - now have more info. I booted into the recovery console and did a chkdsk /r, no change. I managed to disable the auto-restart and got the BSOD STOP:0x0000007B (0xF79F7528,0xCOOOOO34,0x00000000,0x00000000)
I'm looking at this mskb -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/122926/

but I am really struggling to know what to try now. I am tearing my hair out here (under massive time pressure).
Anyone?

 

[Happo]

Forgot to say. Don't know whether this is relevant but when trying to boot into safe mode it freezes on loading a347bus.sys ?

 

[Happo]

Fixed! Phew, after reading here -

http://forum.alcohol-soft.com/index.php?showtopic=14109

I found it was related to two files a347bus.sys & a347scsi.sys that halt the system after having SP2 installed on top of them, which I did when I did the repair reinstall (slipstreamed). The two files in question are a part of Alcohol 120%. I renamed these files in the recovery console to .old and the rest is history. Cheers

 

[rvnguy]

Happo,

WOW, really glad that you are back up & functioning.

Yes, the bit of info about a347bus.sys would have been a huge clue as you found out.

Thanks for posting your findings as these might be helpful to others.


rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all