OKay heres the deal i have a dell inspiron 2500 that i recently purchased from a garage sale it originally had windows me on it the system specs are as follows
CPU- celeron 800mhz
HD- 10 G
Mobo- i815EM
Ram- SDram 254
Now i have wiped the hd and installed xp in its place everything went smooth and dandy however i cant connect to the internet now i'm trying to connect through a straight connection of cable modem no passwords its always turned on now normally this wouldn't be a problem but when i open the task manager and tab over to networking it is a blank grey screen with the words no Active network adapters found. In the network connections folder within the control panel there is nothing its just blank when i try the creation wizard it just tells me that my connection should already be working which of course it isnt So my question is , Is my network card broke and i should just go get a new one or is it something i'm missing and i've checked the hardware drivers everything is in order PLease help
CPU- celeron 800mhz
HD- 10 G
Mobo- i815EM
Ram- SDram 254
Now i have wiped the hd and installed xp in its place everything went smooth and dandy however i cant connect to the internet now i'm trying to connect through a straight connection of cable modem no passwords its always turned on now normally this wouldn't be a problem but when i open the task manager and tab over to networking it is a blank grey screen with the words no Active network adapters found. In the network connections folder within the control panel there is nothing its just blank when i try the creation wizard it just tells me that my connection should already be working which of course it isnt So my question is , Is my network card broke and i should just go get a new one or is it something i'm missing and i've checked the hardware drivers everything is in order PLease help