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Question

I wanted to clean my laptop up with recovery disks that I downloaded from Gateway. When it was in it's final stage with install XP it would stop at "Registers Components". I tried this a dozen times with same result.I called Gateway and explained it to them and they told me to buy a new harddrive, which I did. I got the same results. Called Gateway back and they said now it was probably the recovery disks I downloaded from them .So they sent me their recovery disk from the factory and again it would stop at "Registers Components". So NOW I tried my XP OS disk and it loaded just fine except I can not connect to the Internet. I went into Device manager and I don't have the drivers in "Other Devices" there, they have the Yellow Mark next to them. Gateway gave me a link to the drivers, I downloaded them to a flash drive and was able to install 8 of 10. The 2 that I can't get to install is "Ethernet" and "Network". Please Help.Like to solve recovery 1st, If not then the XP issue with Drvrs.

Answer 1

It's possible that the 2 that won't install need SP2 for XP.
Try installing this:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90&p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f1%2f6%2f5%2f165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73cf11fdcdf8%2fWindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe

then retry installing the drivers.

Answer 2

Try reinstalling the last 2 drivers BUT this time with ALL startups disabled.

Click Start, click Run, type msconfig, ok. Select Startup tab, disable all, apply, ok. Laptop will restart. Install drivers. After a successful installation you could enable the startups again in msconfig.