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I reinstalled Windows XP Professional on my Dell Inspiron 6000 Notebook. I am unable to connect to wirelss internet. I checked the BIOS and everything is enabled, even Fn F2 option, it does not work.
I reinstalled Windows XP Professional on my Dell Inspiron 6000 Notebook. I am unable to connect to wirelss internet or wired intenet. Nothing is coming up, the wi-fi icon is not even lit. I checked the BIOS and everything is enabled, even the Fn+F2 option, yet that does not even work. Is there any way to fix this and if not, would installing a Vista upgrade resolve this issue?
Silly Question but did you reinstall the driver?
You need to install the all drivers for your particular notebook - If you havn't got the original driver disks take note of the service tag number and go to the dell support website and download all the drivers there - naturally you will need access to another computer for this
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By the way Vista never solved, only created more problems
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Oh my goodness you guys are lifesavers lol. Thank you, it worked! I have another question. The reason that I had to reinstall windows is because my laptop keeps crashing due to I believe a boot sector issue. I have a friend that took a look at it and he told me to stop using Internet Explorer because that was basically the reason it keeps crashing. He installed Firefox and I don't really like it because I am used to using IE. It doesn't sound right to me but I don't really know much about things like that. Could it be possible that Internet Explorer is the cause of the crashing? Must I use Mozilla instead?
P.S. "HARDATIT" I totally agree with you ... I am anti-Vista as well but I was willing to try anything!
Thanks again everyone!!!
P.S. "HARDATIT" I totally agree with you ... I am anti-Vista as well but I was willing to try anything!
Thanks again everyone!!!
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It was an old version on IE. I don't know what version it was but I just upgraded to IE8. I will try it out and if it happens again I will try something else. You guys were really helpful. I will be sure to keep on top of my drivers now! :-)