Re: Mindboggling weirdness


"Dudely" <ab3331@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Yesterday I wrote:

| I broke
| down and bought a new disk today. I did a fresh XP Pro (SP2) install
| on it and booted it. The first thing I noticed is there were no icons
| - other than the recycler icon. That's not right is it?

Yes a fresh install of XP will only have the one icon.


| The next thing I noticed is that I can't connect to the Internet - I
| have a DSL connection. In fact, I can't see the Win2000 computer on
| my LAN either. I can't ping my DSL modem. IPCONFIG shows totally
| blank. Network wizard won't do anything since it doesn't seem to find
| the NIC. I unplugged the Ethernet cable

Sounds like you need to install your motherboard chipset drivers and/or NIC
drivers. (chipset drivers first others in any order)


| Thanks in advance.


.

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