fry_lover
Fred and the Fredettes
ORIGINAL POST, SORTED OUT INTERNET ISSUE BUT MONITOR ISSUE REMAINS (SEE POST 2)
I've reinstalled XP on my Dell Dimension 4600 series (so this PC is about 7 or 8 yrs old). It's currently got only 256mb RAM in it, but I have 1.5GB RAM in another Dell Dimsension tower I have here, planning on moving that RAM over to this tower when I finish the install of XP properly and get this driver issue fixed.
Anyway, the XP disk I had must of been older than the original Windows installed on the tower I am using as initially it would not let me install, so I had to format the partitions from a boot start up and then install this disk of XP which comes with Service Pack 1a so I'm assuming this version must about about 10 years old!
Okay two big problems........
First is the fresh installed XP tower won't recognise my cable modem which is a Scientific Atlanta epc2100R2 which I've had for must be over 5 -years, probably longer It works fine on the other tower (the one where I have not messed about with windows!). I've tried downloading the suggested drivers from their website. I don't have any spare disks to hand so I downloaded them onto a USB memory stick but I just can't get the other tower with the fresh install to "take the drivers" or whatever the term is.
Do I need drivers to be burned to a disc or is a USB stick adequate?
Is part of this problem that the new install of XP was done from such an old XP disc, or is there another way (or several!) that I have stuffed this up?
Similar issue for the ACER X193W monitor I have, after install of XP all the display stuffed up (Drivers I assume for monitor?). I downloaded the driver Google pointed in the direction too for this model monitor and tried to upload it on fresh install XP tower but can't work this out!
I plugged back in the original Dell monitor that came with the Tower in the first place and it's a better picture but it's still not right in that the screen is about 3" too far to the left on the display.
Again, down to me installing a too old version of XP here?
Am I right in thinking this is all about Drivers? Obviously ignorance and stupidity play a role!!!!!
I've reinstalled XP on my Dell Dimension 4600 series (so this PC is about 7 or 8 yrs old). It's currently got only 256mb RAM in it, but I have 1.5GB RAM in another Dell Dimsension tower I have here, planning on moving that RAM over to this tower when I finish the install of XP properly and get this driver issue fixed.
Anyway, the XP disk I had must of been older than the original Windows installed on the tower I am using as initially it would not let me install, so I had to format the partitions from a boot start up and then install this disk of XP which comes with Service Pack 1a so I'm assuming this version must about about 10 years old!
Okay two big problems........
First is the fresh installed XP tower won't recognise my cable modem which is a Scientific Atlanta epc2100R2 which I've had for must be over 5 -years, probably longer It works fine on the other tower (the one where I have not messed about with windows!). I've tried downloading the suggested drivers from their website. I don't have any spare disks to hand so I downloaded them onto a USB memory stick but I just can't get the other tower with the fresh install to "take the drivers" or whatever the term is.
Do I need drivers to be burned to a disc or is a USB stick adequate?
Is part of this problem that the new install of XP was done from such an old XP disc, or is there another way (or several!) that I have stuffed this up?
Similar issue for the ACER X193W monitor I have, after install of XP all the display stuffed up (Drivers I assume for monitor?). I downloaded the driver Google pointed in the direction too for this model monitor and tried to upload it on fresh install XP tower but can't work this out!
I plugged back in the original Dell monitor that came with the Tower in the first place and it's a better picture but it's still not right in that the screen is about 3" too far to the left on the display.
Again, down to me installing a too old version of XP here?
Am I right in thinking this is all about Drivers? Obviously ignorance and stupidity play a role!!!!!