I reinstalled win xp on my dell and now I can't get it to connect to the net. It says no nic detected???

I did a complete reinstall of windows xp on my dell dimension 2400 and now when I try to reconfig my internet settings it's telling me I need to install a network interface/internet card. I know I must already have this b/c the internet worked just fine before I did the reinstall. What do I need to do to fix this? Do I need to go somewhere and download a driver or something? If so how do I do this from another computer and get it on the comp. I need it on? Somebody please help. This is very frustrating!!!

I reinstalled win xp on my dell and now I can't get it to connect to the net. It says no nic detected???
Hello and thanks for the question.


You need the Drivers for your nic which can be found on the disc that came with your system or if you lost the disc you can get a USB thumb drive (about $8 with all the sales on now) goto the library (free) or a friends house and download them from there. Make sure to take with you your Make/Model number AND the Service Tag ID number from the sticker on your pc or it will be a wasted trip as dell wants those before giving you access to the correct drivers. Go to Dell.com from the your buddies machine (or library or work etc) and under "Support" get the latest drivers for your motherboard, videocard, NIC, sound and any others listed and you should be fine. Download them to the USB drive and go home plug it in let windows recognize it and it will say your new hardware is installed and ready to use (meaning the USB drive) then goto my computer double click the USB drive and run the drivers from there.


Alternatively you can burn them to a CD which is free if you have a blank but lacks the "geek cred" of using the USB drive. heh.





Side note: Its funny to me how many people are telling you to just download the drivers. They obviously have not read your question through or aren't thinking... NO nic driver = no Network Interface = NO internet access = NO downloading anything lol pay attention people! I suspect many will delete their answers upon reading this. :D
Reply:Call Dell, ASAP!
Reply:It sounds like windows xp was unable to provide the driver for your computer's nic natively. You'll probably have to download the appropriate driver. Dell has a support and downloads section on their website that provides drivers for their products. http://support.dell.com/support/download...
Reply:Go to Dell's support website, enter the serial number for your Dimension, then search for downloads. It should give you a list with (hopefully) one driver for the onboard network card. Download and install that driver. If there is more than one network card driver listed, you can download SIW (System Information for Windows) from http://www.gtopala.com and have it check your system to tell you what hardware it finds. If that doesn't work, you can check in the BIOS to see if it lists the type of NIC you have onboard; if that's not in the BIOS, you'll have to open the case, then compare the available drivers from Dell's website to the chipset on the motherboard to see what matches.
Reply:Hi Mate ....





Have a look here and see if this helps ya out





Colin





http://support.dell.com/support/download...
Reply:Most Dell machines come with system CDs that have all of the drivers for your computer on them. Just find the CD with your NIC's driver and install it.
Reply:go to dell website. click support. select your system. download driver. burn to cd. install on computer.