found message from marble on 9/28/06. Checked all suggestions and found
exclaimation mark still on Packet scheduler. Will check microsoft link.

"Joe T" wrote:

> XP Pro, home made computer 3 yrs old, ECS K7S5A board, have disks. Norton,
> Spy-bot, AVG Free, Ad-Aware. After returning home from a few days gone, I
> tried to sign in to internet. I have Comcast.net broadband. I could not. When
> this happened before and I solved it by uninstaling my SIS 900 Ethernet
> adapter. By the way, there was exclaimation marks on both the SIS adapter and
> the the "Packet scheduler miniport 4". Error message-"This devce is not
> working propely because Windows cannot load the drivers for this device-[Code
> 31].
>
> 1. The SIS ethernet adapter does not reinstall and the Packet Scheduler
> Miniport 4 still has an exclaimation mark on it.
> 2. No problem, I'll put in my XP disk to maybe repair/update driver but then
> I found out that he CD Rom will not read it. I checked device manager and it
> says both CD Roms are working correctly. All devices are working correctly
> according to device manager. My e: drive CDRom will read my ATI utilities
> disk but no other disk at all! My d:will not read anything.
> 3. Well, somehow in all this, something happened to remove everything in the
> Network Connections folder in the control panel!
> 4. Could I have accedentaly clicked "deny" on Spy-Bot when it came up?
>
> How do I correct these problems. Since I cannot search my XP disk for
> drivers or boot to CD, I'm stuck. I do have 6 boot floppies I made. Will
> these help?
> MSCONFIG start up - Normal Startup-Load all drivers etc. Ran Norton,
> Spy-bot, AVG Free, Ad-Aware. No virus.
> How do I repair XP Pro? I'm using my laptop to post.
> Joe
> P.S. Day 3 of quitting smoking. I'm a little stressed right now!!!!!