Ethernet not working

ANNR

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here is the link to my post before about the problem.

My friend asked me to reinstall his sony viao desktop with the xp pro disk that he his.

Everything went well with the installation.

the only problem the pc was having was the Ethernet (local area connections) It was missing the driver.

I installed all the available drivers for his model that i found from sony site. The local area connections show up after i install the driver.

I installed the driver in my dorm since i was busy, and was able to update the windows.

Windows was able to update so i though it is working. I let my friend take his pc home.

But he told me that the internet will not connect. i don't now whats the deal here.

Does anybody know what is going on?

How can i find out what is wrong with it?

what are the list of things that i can try to fix it?

I need a fix soon. I can imagine how his little brother is cursing me right now.

I am think of restoring his pc with the restoring partition on his drive. but am not sure if it is still there.

When i install the xp pro, i erase the c partition to give a full install instead of upgrading the home to pro.

i think the restoring partion should still be there, is it still there? or is it gone when i formated the c drive to to install the xp pro?

thanks allot.
 
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