jdlech

Hi folk. It's been ages since I've been here. I'm moderately knowlegeble about computers in general but never studied networking until now. I've set up a LAN with 3 computers (2 on ethernet and 1 wireless) all connected to a router. All three are sharing the internet connection and all three are sharing some files and folders and one printer. Router: 2 wire 2700HG with a hardware firewall. It's managing the whole network with dynamic IP allocations with a single workgroup name for all three (no bridging neccessary if I understand it correctly) Computer 1: Windows XP home w/ Zonealarm Pro, A

Let me make sure I have this straight. You had trouble formatting the drive. But once you succeeded and installed windows clean, the ntoskrnl.exe file came up corrupt on the first boot. This sounds to me like a hardware problem. Probaby the hard drive and possibly the controller. If you have problems doing a repair install and with clean installing with another (non ntfs) version of windows, then you should start looking at replacing the drive. Hope I helped.

You did not specify what OS you are using. But this sounds like a driver problem. Sometimes the driver file gets corrupted. If you have windows, it could be a registry problem. Either case, uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers should take care of the problem.