I posted this question on the MS Hardware Newsgroup earlier so excuse the duplication. I’ll save a long winded description for now, but essentially as a result of a major trojan virus infection (now deemed clean by Trend Micro), serious
damage was done to my network adapters (all showing yellow ! marks) and some of the non-plug and play drivers (e.g., AFD, IPSEC driver, TCP/IP Protocol
Driver). My tech friend and the manuf. of the Mavell Yukon PCI/PCI-E controllers have already walked me thru trying to update the drivers from the
Marvell site (mssg says no better driver found), so the next step seems to be to see if the non plug and play drivers are the underlying culprit.
So my initial question is since right-clicking on the non plug and play drivers only gives me a choice between disabling or uninstalling (no option
to update drivers), and the properties for each of the flagged drivers says “this device is not present or working properly etc (code 24)” —– how do I go about reinstalling them? Will XP Pro automatically try to add them on a reboot like the main network adapters (which are reinstalled ok but still are
yellow ! flagged). Or maybe the on reboot I will be prompted to insert the XP install disk?
Or… am I doomed to having to reformat the HD and do a complete re-install of XP Pro since I see in the details tab of properties that the Device Instance
Id is something like “ROOT\LEGACY_TCIP\0000”?
Thanks in advance for any ideas ….
