in my device manager under network adapters, it's showing a 3com card is installed which the machine does not have and when i try to uninstall it it says "failed to uninstall. device may be required to boot." also listed is: admtek an983 10/100 pci adapter direct parallel linksys etherfast usb 10/100 ethernet adpater - packt scheduler miniport (twice) packet scheduler miniport #4 packet scheduler miniport #5 wan miniport (ip) wan miniport (ip) - packet scheduler miniport wan miniport (l2tp) wan miniport (pppoe) wan miniport (pptp) none of which will uninstall as well and get the same message as above. can't connect to the internet and i think it has something to do with these items. running windows xp trying to upgrade to sp2 once i get internet access. can someone shed some lite on this pls.? thanks. eric

Did you delete both adaptres in Device Manager and let WINXP reinstall the correct one?

How to Roll Back a Device Driver http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/using/howto/gethelp/driverrollback.asp Removing Unsigned Drivers http://www.youthtech.com/techstuff/explore_windowsxp/xptroubleshoot2.htm http://www.youthtech.com/techstuff/explore_windowsxp/xptroubleshoot3.htm Windows XP : Device Manager http://www.lpt.com/windowsnetworking/regusers/wxpdevmg.htm http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prdh_dmt_lhfg.asp http://members.fortunecity.com/xpdevicemanager/ http://www.wown.info/j_helmig/wxpdevmg.htm

I noticed your 128 Ram is the minimum for XP, you may want to upgrade if you want SP2 to run properly. Ram is quite inexpensive anymore. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

thank u everyone, i will try these suggestions and let u know. much appreciated. eric

badboy, it won't let me delete or uninstall them. it says "failed to uninstall the device. the device may be required to boot up the computer." sound strange to u? thanks. eric

Is wake on LAN enabled in BIOS?