Thread: help lost network connection

OK...what have i done, loaded xp pro onto a pc that was given to us.....a P4 thats a few years old and now i go to set it up for adsl no go because i cannot get past step two find your network connection and right click properties.... i rings the ISP helpdesk and they tell me i first need to load the driver......was i supposed to save something off the pc before i loaded xp pro

i search the web for the driver, by the way it an optima wordpro serial no. 1017647-0603-003

i came up with the following, downloaded and installed but i cannot see the network connection thingy
Optima Support File Downloads

i have pulled the case off the it looks like the the network connection is part of the mother board

there is a seperate card but it it only takes a phone connection...two small for the network cable

by the way this is my first ever time of rebuilding a pc so going easy

what else do i need to do?????

i have managed to get the laptop up and running.......funny thing is i have never touched the operating system and everything is there

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

any legit copy of XP will require you to "activate" it,, This is how microsoft stops theft.
like most things there are ways around it,,

i have the activation code, almost everything seems to work