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Getting online with a new Dell D600

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Hi. I am new here so please bear with me. I just bought a used Dell D600 laptop that did not come with an operating system. I installed Windows XP and everything seems to be working fine, but I can't seem to get on the internet at all. The laptop has built in wireless, which I turned on in the BIOS, but I can't get it to recognize anything. Then I just tried directly plugging in the ethernet cable to the DSL box and it still will not recognize any LAN connection or get online at all. Please help! I am not very tech savvy so please bear with my slowness. Thanks for your help!!!!!
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You need to install the proper drivers for it.

Go into the device manager and install drivers for every device that has a yellow exclamation point. Start with the chipset and GPU drivers.
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Hi. Thanks for your help. I can't get online with the laptop to download the drivers I need (I'm on a desktop right now). I only had a CD to install XP; I don't have a CD to install the drivers. The drivers are all enabled, but the laptop will not update any of the drivers without a CD or internet connection. :confused:
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Using the pc you are on now, download the drivers from the Dell support site, burn them to cd or copy to flash drive, and install on the laptop.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen
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