You'll need to call dell for a replacement series of discs. You've completely erased your systems configuration settings, I'm willing to bet you don't have the drivers your system requires in order for the wireless networking to function correctly.
Drivers tell your laptop what components it contains and how they work, if you merely reinstall Windows XP without knowing what types of drivers your laptop uses then you'll never have all the devices listed under "Device Manager" known.
Also you should be able to visit the support site of Dell and download them from there. You really only want the drivers for:
Motherboard
Videocard
Wireless Card
or similar items.
Oh, never install Windows ME is stinks, and upgrading to XP from ME is a silly way to do it because that just messes things up even more later.
sam1486
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April 17th, 2006 22:00
You'll need to call dell for a replacement series of discs. You've completely erased your systems configuration settings, I'm willing to bet you don't have the drivers your system requires in order for the wireless networking to function correctly.
Drivers tell your laptop what components it contains and how they work, if you merely reinstall Windows XP without knowing what types of drivers your laptop uses then you'll never have all the devices listed under "Device Manager" known.
Also you should be able to visit the support site of Dell and download them from there. You really only want the drivers for:
Motherboard
Videocard
Wireless Card
or similar items.
Oh, never install Windows ME is stinks, and upgrading to XP from ME is a silly way to do it because that just messes things up even more later.