Im trying to fix this and at the same time avoid reformatting but i will if thats the case.
ok here it goes. i bought a new DVD-rom drive and and i replaced my old drive with it. turns out my power supply wanst enough to run the new drive so i put the old drive back in. after that i couldnt start my computer. it would say something like" sorry for the inconvenience but windows failed to start properly, this could be due to a hardware change". anyway my friend figured out that it was because the new drive was set to master and the old one was set to slave so when i put the old one back in the computer was still looking for a master drive. so now i can get onto my computer but all of the sudden my Ethernet port doesnt work and my sound card doesnt work (or thats what it seems like). ive tried reinstalling my motherboard and soundcard drivers but that didnt work either. does anyone know what is wrong or how to fix it besides reformatting?
thanks for your help

do you think i could run the repair with the XP disc and have that fix the problems?

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here it is thanks for the help

i needed to do something like go into setup while booting and change a pnp/pci setting to enable for reset configuration or something like that. works good now. thanks for the help tho

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