[theodawg]

Hey Everyone,

I've recently acquired a Dell Inspiron 640m, I know its not great, but it's free and will get me by. Anyways, it had Vista Home Basic on it previously. I uninstalled Vista, formatting everything . There were 4 partitions, 2 FAT, 2 NTFS. I deleted them and installed XP. It was going soundly until i was attempting to create a wireless network connection with the 'Main' computer; right at the end. I tried for a couple of hours and still didn't work, i got my dad involved (he is normally good with these problems) and he had no clue.

My guess is that the wireless is not working. Or i haven't installed all the components.

Has anyone had these problems? And were you able to fix it? and How?
Also if you know how to fix it, could you please share the knowledge?

Cheers.

PS. i'm sorry if this message wasn't ledgible, im very frustrated.

[bbearren]

Did you install XP drivers for your wireless card?

[theodawg]

I went to Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components
and i selected....
accessories and utilities
indexing services
internet explorer
management and monitoring tools
networking services
other network file and print services
outlook express
update root certificates
windows media player
windows messenger

which means the unselected are...
fax services
internet information services (IIS)
message queuing


I think this is what you mean. If not, how would i be able to install XP drivers.

If i remember correctly i created a network connection before i installed some of the windows components, maybe this may of done something.

thanks

[Rick_in_Fla]

Here's a link to where you can download the XP drivers for your wireless card. Click on the + sign next to where it says Network to expand the list.. http://support.dell.com/support/down...&catid=&impid=

[pedroguy]

As posted above,most likely a driver issue.
Might want to take a look at device manager entries for network adapters and any other device that shows an error indicator.

Let’s take a look at the status of the network adapters





Device manager:

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type devmgmt.msc

Please respond to all the following steps.
1. Under Network adapters, please tell me all the devices listed.
2. Are there any devices under Network adapters that have a red x displayed?
3. Also, are there any devices anywhere in the Device Manager display with yellow ? or ! displayed?
4. Adapter status should be “working properly and enabled”



Might also be a good idea to download and install the chipset driver as well.

[theodawg]

RE: RICK_IN_FLA
I'll take a look at it

RE: PEDROGUY

1. Under Network adapters, please tell me all the devices listed.
2. Are there any devices under Network adapters that have a red x displayed?
3. Also, are there any devices anywhere in the Device Manager display with yellow ? or ! displayed?
4. Adapter status should be “working properly and enabled”

1. Network adapters 1394 Net Adapter
2. No
3. Yes, heres a list.
audio device on HD audio bus
base system device (times 3)
ethernet controller
network controller
SM Bus controller
Video Controllers
Video controller (VGA Compatible)
4. "This device is working properly".

Thanks

[pedroguy]

Does not look good.
I would go to the Dell site and:
Download and install the chipset driver.Then

You need to investigate all the devices that indicate errors.
You will probably have to download and install drivers for them all.

[theodawg]

thats great.
thank you very much for your help.
i will report back to here if the errors arent rectified when i install them all.
thanks

[pedroguy]

Great.As I said,the Dell site recommends the chipset driver first.
You have a night's work ahead of you..

[theodawg]

thanks for the help everyone
seems to have done the trick
however, the dell website download didnt work so i had to download off the intel website
thanks

[pedroguy]

Perfect.
Glad we could help..