DHCP Client service does not start because of dependency failure

My user's Dell M1330 laptop recently bought is not able to get connected to networks both with the NIC and the Wireless card. We know the router is not the problem because other Desktop (wired connection) and Laptop (wireless) can connect to the router just fine.

The problem is basically because the laptop NIC is not getting an IP address assigned by DHCP server, and further investigating revealed that the DHCP Client service is not started (although it was set to automatically start). We couldn't manually start the service and got an 1608 error saying dependency group failed (without telling us which one failed). Looking in the dependency tab of the DHCP Client shows these are components the service depends on:

Ancillary Function Driver for Winsock NetIO Legacy TDI Support Driver > TCP/IP Protocal Driver Network Store Interface Service> NSI proxy service We checked and know the NSI proxy service is running fine. We can ping 127.0.01 and I think that means the TCP/IP Protocal Driver is working fine.So that leaves the AFD driver in question.

So how can we find out if the AFD driver has been loaded correctly? Thanks
for any help or pointer!

Best,

I finally figured it out.
To test is AFD is loaded correctly, first start CMD as an administrator, and then type net start AFD.

As I suspected, the AFD driver couldn't be loaded. And I had to use sfc /scannow to repair the corrupted driver file. Once it's repaired, I started DHCP Client service just fine and I was able to get DHCP assigned IPs with no problem.

Hope this will help someone else who experience the same problem.

Hi, I'm having this problem- and when I tried what you said - it came back with 'Acess is denied'' How can I have access denied?!

You have to run CMD as an administrator.

To do that, you type in CMD after you click the START button. Then right click on Command Prompt from the list and select Run as Administrator.

I did the same fix and the SFC scan came back that no errors were detected...
Now what can I do????

[jdwoot01]

Ok, so i did this,"net start AFD" andgot "The specified driver is invalid." so my afd driver is gone? i don't know what to do thi is a used labtop and i dont have disk and system restore wont fix the problem. what do i do now?....working on wireless network...not working "limied or no connectivity" using my desktop to get online.

[Wiro]

If you don't have the CD for your Laptop driver then you should try on the Manufacturer site and download the complete driver for your system. Also if you are looking for the AFD driver then i will advise you to go with the below given link where you can get the complete information about the AFD and download for same. So if you can then go through the link and get it working.

AFD Driver

[jdwoot01]

cool but the problem is I cannot get online with my labtop because this driver will not work, thus I cannot get to that site to get the driver, my computer is used and is a tc4200, no cd Drive. =/

also wanted to add that my OS is
Windows XP tablet pc edition 2005 (Version 2002)