HELP : xp formatt

harris1986

harris1986

harris1986

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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 :D
 
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Did it come up last time? At a guess it wouldn't come up if the card wasn't recognised as being a network/wireless card during installation of XP - i.e needs driver cd. Have you used the wireless software on the CD or manually installed the driver (pointed the hardware to the driver folder, instead of running the setup off the CD)?
 
harris1986 said:
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 : 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 :D
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The only way it will pop up with a networking configurations box is if XP detects a network card and installs it's own drivers. You would have to install these once windows has booted up into the desktop.

Andr3w1984
 
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 said:
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
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What WiFi PCI card do you have? and what driver versions have you tried?

andr3w1984
 
Do you have any other computers connected to the router? Try leaving it off at the wall for 5 mins.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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