thats a strange error...might be worthwhile to run a diagnostics on the harddrive.


Other than that, since you have another pc to get online, download the drivers (chipset and network card) and install them on your PC, then youc an download everything else.

Thanks for the help.

I ended up clicking on every file in Driver folder on the Dell ResourceCD and seeing what it is (what driver and for what version of Windows), and saved&unzipped the ones thast seemed appropriate. After I was able to get online with this computer, I went to Dell's website and downloaded again the chipset and whatever else I was still missing or needed to be updated. It seems to work fine right now, although I am a little worried that I did not instal the chipset first, as other messages recommend.

generally i definitely prefer to install the chipset first. I've gone ahead and installed network drivers first, due to situations similar to yours and had no trouble at all, meanwhile other times we had big problems.

Was the chipset actually missing according to the device manager? If you want, now that you have all the programs downloaded....you could likely perform a system restore to get back to before you installed all the drivers, and do it right from there.



*What i would recommend, now that you're in windows and you know that for whatever reason, that resource cd has some issues, i'd download all needed drivers for your PC and burn them to cd, so that in the future you can fly thru this in minutes.*

Thank you. And great suggestions.