Did you try going in to safe mode to install the driver for the NIC (if you think its a driver problem)?
Chris Franzen Technology Coordinator Nokomis School District 511 Oberle St. Nokomis, IL 62075 On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Haffer, Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > The office received two HP notebooks, each about 3 years old, with XP on > them. However, the person has cleaned them in such a way that I need to > Activate Windows before I can log on. However, it does not find > connectivity. The Dells I receive from this person also need activation but > connect fine to the cloud and wa la I am off and running. > > Not the HPs. The first one I just slapped a linux version on called > Peppermint. Seems easy for the teachers to use. > > But gosh darn it, I want to use XP on this recent one. It seems like the > drivers for the nic are not loading before the need to activate comes on. > Any suggestions? > > Thanks. > > > > Richard G. Haffer > > ROE46 > > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >
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