dopa345,   Restoring Your Computer´s Software to the Factory Settings    or     The Desktop/Notebook Utility needs to be installed first(if applicable), then the chipset drivers. If they are NOT installed first, then the rest of the drivers will fail to install.      How to Install Drivers in Microsoft® Windows® on Dell Systems     Since the operating system was re-installed did you remember to go to drivers and downloads, enter your service tag(DO NOT POST SERVICE TAG here or your post will get deleted, since it contains your personal information), and install these drivers in this order.   :emotion-55: Hint :emotion-55: When downloading the drivers, make a folder for each drivers and name it with the device it belongs with to make it easier to install them in the proper order.   Desktop System Software or Notebook System Software Chipset or SMBus driver Processor Driver (if applicable) Video Audio (sound) Input Drivers (keyboard/mouse) Modem Network Card QuickSet(Laptop only)     Rick
My relatively new Inspiron 1525 recently crashed which forced  me to reinstall Windows XP.  However, since the install, I cannot connect to the interest either from ethernet or from wireless.  When I try to reinstall drivers, my computer aborts the installation since it can't detect any adapters present.  The adapters don't seem to be present in the device manager. Any reason why this would be the case? Thanks for any help.
Laptop not recognizing network adaptors