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    No wireless after reinstall of windows xp pro

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by yesrno1, Jun 4, 2007.

  1. yesrno1

    yesrno1 Newbie

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    I reinstalled xp pro on my 600m. After the reinstall I have no wireless. I tryed to find the right drivers on dell and have been unsuccessfull. I was able to get everything else to work. I show a big yellow question mark by network adaptors in the device manager. Im running 1.6gb , 1 gb ram, 60 gb hard drive 5400 rpm. Any help is appreciated!
     
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    vespoli 402 NBR Reviewer

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    What wireless adapter do you have?

    For some reason I am not able to access Dell's support page right now.

    You need to go to support.dell.com, choose drivers and downloads and enter your service tag (found on the bottom of your computer), then choose the proper driver to download for the wireless adapter you have and download/install.
     
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    LeeC81 Notebook Consultant

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    It might be a compatibility issue; let us know what wireless card you have. And what previous OS were you using, before the upgrade.
     
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    yesrno1 Newbie

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    I was running xp pro. I started having alot of errors and couldn't fix them. I decided to reinstall and did, it didn't fix the errors so I decided to reformat and fresh install. I did go to dell and enter my service tag number. I don't know exactly wich network adaptor I have and on dell's download page it shows all the possible ones for my computer. How can I find out which adaptor that I have?
     
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