HELP : xp formatt

harris1986 · 18 Jan 2008 at 21:50

help guys i'm currently experiencing problems during formatt of xp pro, when i'm going through the pop up windows (time, cd key etc) the network settings window doesn't come up this is the one i mean : http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsxp/images/using/setup/winxp/xp-setup-12-network-setting.jpg it just skips it and moves on then when i get into windows and install my wireless card it doesn't want to connect for love nor money

, is my windows cd borked or is there some other reason for it doing this? i'm tearing my hair out.

HELP

harris1986 · 18 Jan 2008 at 21:58

well i've just come back from vista but i remember in the past it did come up, i'm installing windows without my wireless card in the pci slot, as i know during installation of the card i have to connect it after the drivers and utility has been installed (it's a BT-Voyager 1040 pci card), and when i run the setup utility it asks me to shut down and insert the card i do so and load windows back up and try connecting to my wireless router and it just freezes during "aquiring network address" then says "limited or no connectivity". i've tried various patches and fixes and none have worked.

i'm on Be internet by the way

harris1986 · 18 Jan 2008 at 22:01

yep my laptop that i'm on now works fine, and the card is a BT-Voyager 1040 pci card. i don't understand as to how it was fine on vista and connects straight away and yet xp doesn't like it now. i have used it when i was on xp previously and it was fine when i was with BT broadband, i also bought a new pci card today a Sitecom pci card mimo-XR and that had the same problem.

harris1986 · 18 Jan 2008 at 22:28

also worth mentioning is that in device manager i apparently have a unknown "pci device" well all of my pci slots are empty so i'm curious as to what this is all about aswell?