i just booted my computer back to its orignial setup. i have a LAN connection.

for some reason i cant connect to the internet. i have a gateway media center computer. relatively new. im willing to pay someone that has computer experience if they can comme and fix this problem. or if anyone has any advise, id really appreciate it.

2/24/2006 2:31:58 PM

THANK YOU, TECH GOD!

2/24/2006 3:04:49 PM

You're on a roomate's computer right?

The system restore discs and such from gateway and dell have a habit of not finishing installation of the correct drivers for stuff like the ethernet controller. You might want to borrow a buddy's computer, download the driver direct from gateway for your appropriate model, copy it to a cd or thumb drive, and manually install it yourself.


Start->settings->control panel-> system (may have to select classic mode to see it)->hardware {tab}->device manager

tell us if you see any yellow exclamation points. this would signify incorrectly installed devices.

[Edited on February 24, 2006 at 3:19 PM. Reason : ]

2/24/2006 3:19:15 PM

well, i don't have blank cd's, my roomate does not have a burner, i do not have a flash drive, no way to download them, gosh yall are mean to me...

oops... wrong thread.

yeah man, just download the network card drivers on your roomates computer and then burn a cd/flash drive whatever them to yours and install. remember, you might need winzip also to unzip them.

2/24/2006 3:45:45 PM

YOu can also be old school and use floppy disks

2/24/2006 4:47:04 PM

^^^
The yellows are a good clue as Char said. As far as paying somebody, where do you live and how much are you willing to pay? People will PM me you from there. To properly setup your computer from near scratch will probably take an hour.

2/24/2006 9:00:31 PM

haha dude you know my ass knows a ton of computer shit

2/24/2006 9:11:38 PM

^^^^

Windows XP can open zip files natively I'm pretty sure

2/25/2006 1:37:44 AM

^you sir are correct

you dont need winzip thats just another program that jumbles up your computer

in fact fuck the microsoft shit too

just get winace, it pretty much works with anything and is free forever

only had one problem ever and that was opening a rar file that i had to use winrar to open

2/25/2006 2:23:40 AM