HELP! I CLEAN INSTALL XP HOME EDITION, I CNA'T USE MY COMPUTER

Question

Before explain what is my problem now with my PC now, I have to let you know I set up my internet cable and printers in my home office with Ethernet cable before and it worked fine. I have Dell dimension 2400 and it was working funny, I finally decided to clean install my computer. (my friend told me to do this and said it is easy to do.) so... I did. after i clean installed, I had a problem which I saw nothing except only gray screen. so I call to microsoft and after approx. 3 hrs of talking with tech people, and installing correct monitor driver to PC, now I can finally see my desktop menu. NOW... I try to connect to internet and I can't find any icons on internet connection set up area. when I try to set up, it keep tells me that there are no Ethernet card, nor network adapter. I try to get all the drivers what is been recommended on dell download site to my PC after I read some article from this forum site. BUT some driver had no problem to installing, some driver don't seem like it is proper driver for my PC even it is recommended for dell dimension 2400. anyway... I have NO IDEA how to go about it. is there someone who patient enough to help me to fix my computer? (I read somewhere... when I install the driver for PC there are right order to install them. If not it is not gonna work. is it true?) I am seriously helpless... :-(

helplessgirl · Answer

Thank you for your quick reply. I already have been install those driver in wrong order. Do I need to clean install again in order to work? or I need to just delete drivers?

Rebel9 · Answer

All of the drivers for your system are here and the order of installation is here.

Rebel9 · Answer

You can try deleting the drivers and see what happens, but I suspect that you may need another clean install.

decoder101 · Answer

-  cAn you please goto device manager (>right click my computer, left click on properties, goto hardware and click device manager) -  now tell me all the question marks or red x on the list of drivers...

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