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
>
>
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