This is a very long story, so, to start, I have a Dell Inspiron 600m with newly installed Windows XP Professional (with SP2) (newly installed meaning today). I installed Windows from the CD without any outright problems, and installed all of the Dell drivers on my Dell Resource CD. I have had the computer for over a year, originally with Windows XP HE.

We bought a copy of XP Pro and installed it today. I followed the CD's directions and online directions by the letter and can't think of anything I would have done to cause the problem below.

The main problem, as of now, is that my ethernet card fails to recognize the Broadcom driver it is supposed to work with. That driver was not, surprisingly, on the Dell resource CD, so I had to download it (Broadcom 440, but I'm going to try the other one too) from Dell Support onto a USB drive and then install it on my computer, which also went smoothly. I went through the process of searching for the driver folder by folder but my card didn't find it. My ethernet card still has a yellow question mark in the device manager, though. I'm at a loss as to what to do.

If anyone can help me get the ethernet card to work, I would greatly, greatly appreciate it. Until this morning it functioned perfectly.

I don't have any personal files on the computer and reformatting the hd/reinstalling windows is fine by me. Any suggestions?

CD wise, I have the original Dell CDs that came with my computer, the XPHE one and the resource CD, my wireless card installation CD and my new XP Pro CD and packaging.