help, error during start-up, and not very good computer skills

[mellyg]

I have recently completely reinstalled everything on my PC.

Now have simply windows xp professional, then I installed the drivers.

 

I get the internet to work through an ethernet connection,

I then installed an anti-virus downloaded from the net,

When I went to restart my computer, once the IP address had been found, it showed TFTP... I waited for a few minutes, and then TFTP: timeout appeared. I thought I was stuck on this screen but eventually through pressing escape managed to get back to the normal start-up. however as I pressed esc the message "exiting broadcom PXE Rom" appeared.

 

I have absolutely no idea what any of this means. What have I done wrong? How can I solve this?

 

Any help would be great! Thank you

 

M

[londonles]

hello

 

TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol is a process used by host adapters to talk to each other on first boot, because you also mention the problem "exiting Broadcom PXE" I would guess you have a host adapter problem. Try reinstalling the drivers for the broadcom network adapter and restart the pc

 

Les

[danzil]

have you ran all relevant scans on your pc for spyware,mailware etc...i had a friend that had an tftp dos box popping up occasionally and this turned out to be a virus.

not saying yours is though,have you also tried updating your network card drivers.etc