Yup...that does make it more difficult when doing a reinstall / reformat blindly without preparing ahead of time with the drivers.
I did that too on my very first time. A good learning experience for me, lol.....:smileyvery-happy:
Now I have all my pertinent drivers loaded on a USB flashdrive and when I need 'em, I've got them handy..:smileyhappy:
You'll probably have to go to the drivers & downloads page and download it from there. (on the computer you're on now, I mean..) Or if you have your Dell Resource CD, I would think it would be on that too.
To say that I have learned from this experience is an understatement. Plus that fact that my memory is terrible too. The network adaptor was fine, it was the network controller that is the issue. When I go into Device Manager, I have the wonderful yellow question mark. So, that being said, any suggestions? By the way, I appreciate your feedback from the prior notes.
I did install the drivers, and the resolution is fixed. Now the only issue that I have left is that the network adaptor is not installed, and I am not sure how to find the driver for it. Seeing that I do not have internet on the machine without this, I can not search for it and am not sure of where this might be on any of the 4 CD's that came with my unit. Thoughts?
I just re-loaded Window XP Home 2002 on my Dimension 4550 and i used the drivers disc that came with the system to reload drivers. The program scans the system for hardware and then provides you with a list of hardware it found and also a bunch od 'read-me' files.
When i selected the driver for the ethernet card, it unzipped the driver files and indicated it wanted to save them to a directory (folder) on my drive. Since the installation was new, the file/folder did not exist and it asked me if i wanted it to create it - i said yes and I noted the directory name.
What you need to do next is find the hardware (ethernet card) in the hardwarelisting on the pc, right click and select 'Update Driver'. Follow the prompts on the screen knowing you want to browse for the folder the driver files were saved in. Be sure to select the driver for Windows XP as 95, 98, 2000 etc. are there too for the ethernet card.
Maybe this will help - it took me a bit to figure out because i had never done it before.
tommyo1954
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http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&dl=false&l=en&s=gen&docid=45FAC9DF3456B193E040A68F5A285493&doclang=en&cs=
You did install all your drivers, and in the proper order... correct ?
tommyo1954
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July 23rd, 2008 18:00
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?
Yup...that does make it more difficult when doing a reinstall / reformat blindly without preparing ahead of time with the drivers.
I did that too on my very first time. A good learning experience for me, lol.....:smileyvery-happy:
Now I have all my pertinent drivers loaded on a USB flashdrive and when I need 'em, I've got them handy..:smileyhappy:
You'll probably have to go to the drivers & downloads page and download it from there. (on the computer you're on now, I mean..) Or if you have your Dell Resource CD, I would think it would be on that too.
HF7625
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July 23rd, 2008 18:00
To say that I have learned from this experience is an understatement. Plus that fact that my memory is terrible too. The network adaptor was fine, it was the network controller that is the issue. When I go into Device Manager, I have the wonderful yellow question mark. So, that being said, any suggestions? By the way, I appreciate your feedback from the prior notes.
HF7625
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user1516
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July 23rd, 2008 18:00
I just re-loaded Window XP Home 2002 on my Dimension 4550 and i used the drivers disc that came with the system to reload drivers. The program scans the system for hardware and then provides you with a list of hardware it found and also a bunch od 'read-me' files.
When i selected the driver for the ethernet card, it unzipped the driver files and indicated it wanted to save them to a directory (folder) on my drive. Since the installation was new, the file/folder did not exist and it asked me if i wanted it to create it - i said yes and I noted the directory name.
What you need to do next is find the hardware (ethernet card) in the hardwarelisting on the pc, right click and select 'Update Driver'. Follow the prompts on the screen knowing you want to browse for the folder the driver files were saved in. Be sure to select the driver for Windows XP as 95, 98, 2000 etc. are there too for the ethernet card.
Maybe this will help - it took me a bit to figure out because i had never done it before.
Good luck !:smileyhappy: