I didn't. He knows that's the first thing he needs to do when he gets online.

Yep, first thing. Cody made that very, VERY clear.

Mean Dean, I can bring you your HD back tomarrow probably, I would today but I'm going to Carson to have din din with the fam.

Yikes.

yah, Dean is scaring us all. :P

Sorry, I'm tired and grumpy. 2 days of 5am load test, and not sleeping well anyway.

No rush on the drive, I'm on plane this afternoon.

Acording to the Dell web site, you have an on-board NIC.

No worries Dean. I'll feel like an ass if he does have an onboard NIC. I looked...

OK, a second document says "present only on systems with built-in network capabilities" IT should be right next to/above the set of USB ports closest to the card slots.

I can leave one one for you at the house. I'll PM you where.

Cool, leave the keys to the Audi too. :D

While you are at it, the keys to the Rex also please :D

So I'm gonna see if I can pick up a router from some comp supply store, and an ethernet cable? That's the kind I need yeah? Actually I have one of those that I use for mah Xbox Lizzive.

What's your DSL situation already? Providers are giving modems that have built in gateway routers these days.

I hate those.

Do you already have DSL?

People are going to disagree, but if you ended up with XP, a router would be nice, but wait until they are on sale for $2.99 after rebate and use the XP SP 2 firewall for now. The DSL modem should have a cable, but I'll leave one with the card. Driver CD is there as well.

And don't get Greedy :) Rex keys will not be with it. If you don't have all this figured out by monday, I can help since Cody is a slacker. :P What kind of IT guy doesn't have a spare Ethernet card lying around. :)

Please note:

If you attempt to update a fresh install of XP on a broadband connection w/o a hardware firewall, chances are you'll get a virus before SP2 is installed.

Actually, when do you get off work today Jonny? I'll trade you for a ride to the airport?

I know Scott. I just didn't want him to spend more $$$s. Cheapest one this week is $30 which is a rip off. Cody, was it XP Home w/ SP2 by any chance?

Hell, there will be an SP2 CD with the NIC as well.

Can I prevent this from happening by installing AV software before anything?

Sure Dean, when do you need to go? I get of at 4 or 4:30. You can get a ride in my beast (hahahaha, I can't not laugh when calling my car that).

No, no. Yikes to the whole thread,

J: Compy don't work, help?
Ppl: OK
D: Here's some parts
S: Here's an OS
C: I'll make it work
J: Yay!
C: Where's J?
J: I got 2 drives now, but one's in my hand?
D: Did you wipe?
C: partition......D:/......format.....RegErr......boot....
D: What?
S: Yikes.
C: no NIC
D: I'll trade a 10/100 for your car
C: You got DSL?
SP: You're screwed
J: I'll let you ride in it


Funny stuff!

Hahhahaha.

Man this is so painful to watch!

Matt, remind me to kill Scotty, and Dean 2... Thanks :)

Kill Scotty and Dean 2.


Haha. This thread is funny. It's overcomplicated, but funny :lol:

Yes, well, I'm sorry I don't have extra parts for computers at my house. I leave my work at work...

I would have even used the NIC from my desktop, but alas it's onboard.

It was XP Home, SP1 according to the writing on the CD.

Jonnny, you'll want to install the SP2 from the CD Dean is giving you before you ever even go online. SP2 will install a software firewall so you can then do a Windows Update and then you can download AV and install it. Then you should be good.

Sweet cheese.

True geeks live, eat and breath this stuff. :) J/K. It's cool, just giving you a hard time...

Maybe I'm not a true geek. :(

Honestly I would have done more, like at least download SP2 for him, but between all the issues we had (and time spent playing GT4), it got late fast.