XP Driver issues

Question

I need drivers for my dell laptop Inspiron 600m ST 8w66L61. The ones on the site don't work, even though all looks OK after install and is identified as OK under the hardware(device mgr)screen. My screw-up, as I did not use the image to re-install XP and can't get to it for now. Can anyone help?

Currently in the hardware tab it shows that the drivers for:

Dell Wireless 1450 WLAN miniPCI Card

R115321.EXE
Release Date:  6/23/2006
Description:  Download this driver only if you reside in the United States. This release supports the Dell Wireless 1350, 1370, 1450,1390, 1490 series, and Dell TrueMobile 1300, 1400 series Mini Card, MiniPCI and PC Card devices (not USB).

Broadcom 570x Gigabit Integrated Controller

R107518.EXE
Release Date:  8/31/2005
Description:  NDIS 5 and NDIS 5.1 driver release for the Broadcom 570x Gigabit
Integrated Controller

Device manager shows they are installed and working. There are no exclamations, nothing. I have re-formatted the drive and re-installed XP. I then installed the chipset drivers first, then the O2 micro smart card controller driver. They are both listed under chipset. This did not help. I then downloaded and installed the 2 above device’s drivers, this identified them to XP but still NG.

Looking in the hardware section it all appears normal. neither the NIC or Wireless cards will work but show oK???

Wireless and on-board NIC are turned on in the BIOS. The Dell built in diagnostic utility shows no problems and passes all tests that I ran. If I am doing something wrong it is eluding me?

I access the internet via a D-Link USB to Ethernet adapter as of course neither of my devices work. From what I see it should be working but it is not.

Do you have any ideas?

jmwills · Answer

So if I read this correctly, you reinstalled XP from a disc?  If so, did you reinstall the Chip Set driver also?  If not, that is the cause of your problem.

weldon20 · Answer

After a clean install of XP - I installed the chipset drivers FIRST.  It did not help in any way...???

sparkenh · Answer

If you did not delete the hidden partitions, read this

jmwills · Answer

Okay, if you are using a D-Link USB adpater, why are we mentioning the Intel and Broadcom NIC's.  Do they connect, either wirelessly or wired?  Have you tried running WinSockFix for XP?

weldon20 · Answer

That was one of the items I previously tried and it did not work at that time.  I can't see how it could be corrupt as it was all a clean install?

weldon20 · Answer

I did not delete the partition(s) and will use that information to resurect the drive in the future via the image.  I only  mentioned the USB adapter as that WAS the only way to connect to the internet as the laptop's devices were not working.   Anyways,  the problem appears to have been the failure of the PC to release my IP address.  I manually released it several times did a re-boot and went thru all as usual but nothing seemed to work to allow the devices within the PC a connection to the internet.  Today, after fighting this for a week, all is OK and can now connect via the onboard NIC and wireless.  I did nothing different than usual.  Go figure!   What really pushed me towards a network/IP problem was running the on board Dell diagnostics and it pointing towards the cable.   I thank all for the suggestions, it is great to know there is help out there when needed.

jmwills · Answer

Download and run the WinsockFix program becasue it does seem the TCP stack is corrupt.

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