Computer Assistance Request: Dell, Win XP Pro, New HD, Network Adapter Not Recognized

[Babu]

Bravo! good show old sport, and all that.

Now all I need to really top off my day is hear the news that we sent a cruise missle thru old Stinky's window in Iran ... I suppose I hope for too much happiness at once, but hey, a guy can hope! :)

[Babu]

USB Ethernet adapter The link someone kindly gave earlier in this thread shows one on Newegg (a great seller I have used) for $20.99. I suppose they are all over ebay as well ...

Sounds like a really handy item to have around. If I didn't have more than one computer in the house and some flash drives, I would have had to have gone right down to Fry's Electronics and bought one.

[Al Gator]

LOL

What an optimist! I love it.

[markman46]

Fantastic.. good job.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

If all else fails ? buy a new computer.. lol.. it might give him a good excuse to go to Best Buy tonight with his wife and pick out a new one with dual cores.

[markman46]

Not a lot, got one at best buy for between 15-20

[Al Gator]

Sounds like a winner to me.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Sometimes when you do a restore off a disk and it is either dirty or scratches on it, ( Sometimes ? ) it ( might ? ) go through the whole process, but, since it won't or can't read ( ALL ) the information, it might miss the correct one.
remember ? CDs/DVD/ disk can lose it's information over time by just sitting around.

[TomGuy]

she will be pleased to be able to go on the Internet on her own machine!

Thanks again to the incomparable FReeper Geek Squad!!

Oh yeh. We get the praise, but who'll get the reward??? That hardly seems fair. lol

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Hey Babu ?
We can vouch for you.
When your wife comes home, and you tell her you " worked all day in that project ".
Just take her here on FR and show her all the responses you got.
I know she will see the compassion and effort you did for her to get her computer running again.
You got to give her a lot of credit to,,, 12 hours ? on her feet,,, keep up the good work.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

The best and most complete computer tool ever made. LOL !!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Babu at his computer " now there, what is this red button for after all ? " I know, that's see what it does,,,, PUSH,,,,
Babu... with a puzzled look on his face .... HMMMMmm ??? it didn't do anything,,, oh well.


NEWS FLASH

MULLHAS IN IRAN TOPPLED by a unknown rocket attack, USA is puzzled too......
LOL !!

[Babu]

Oh yeh. We get the praise, but who'll get the reward??? That hardly seems fair. lol

Let not thy heart be heavy but be of good cheer ... what goes around does come around, and those who do good deeds may be pleasantly surprised in their time of need ... :)

[kylaka]

I didn't know they made them USB. Comp USA sells 'em for 20 bucks apparently. I'm kinda lucky because I build my own systems and usually stick with Intel motherboards. The one I'm using now has 8 USB ports and 6 PCI slots. Its very flexible when you run into hardware problems. I also usually run dual boot W2K and XP, so separating hardware and software problems is a snap. Loading and maintaining 2 OS's is a bit of a drag though.

[rockrr]

Congrats!

Here is another bit of advice. Go to: http://www.gtopala.com/ and download his nifty piece of freeware (I'm sure he would accept donations!) called SIW (System Information for Windows).

It generates a comprehensive report of your computer that can be saved to a text file. Put that test file in a safe place and if you should find yourself in this position again you can review it for any of those "unknown device" messages you may see in the Device Manager.

Ain't computing fun?!

[Babu]

Thanks for that tip! I think I will do that for all three machines we have -- two desktops and a notebook. I presume the best place to store this is on a flash drive or a CD, which is what I will do.

A favorite site of mine to give you a quick detailed and itemized list of your computer configuration, and all the hardware and software (plus any updates) you are running can be had at: www.belarcadvisor.com. I usually just print it out and put it in the essential file on the computer, and also leave the icon on the desktop to pull up an up to date copy at any time.

[Babu]

Wups, my bad, try this again, it's belarc advisor the free download, but the site is: http://www.belarc.com