ultracross

scottyboi does not have SP2 his issue is either the SP1 make believe firewall. His router, Maybe Norton Firewall I don't think he has it but his post are not clear, or possibly a bad Windows XP install since he stated it was SP1 and when he tried to DL SP2 the windows verification could not verify his copy of XP. Which means it is most likely a free version of XP in which case re formating and re installing is going to do him no good at all it will still be a corrupt version of XP.

And yes scottyboi allot of the free versions of XP will install and operate they just do not operate properly. The first thing I would do is get another copy of XP preferably the paid for version then you will know it is good then reformat and reinstall. This may not solve your problem though because I have no Idea if you properly port forwarded your router.

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