RE: Network problem with XP sp 2

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From: Mike Q (MikeQ_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:41:10 -0700

Fixed.

Formatted everything, re-installed XP and apply all the patches but didn't
upgrade to sp2.
Now, after 12 hours of hell everything works OK.

Thanks to all that responded

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