I had recently gotten XP from school, and previously had Windows 2000 on my computer, and so I wiped my drive c and tried to install nvidia nforce2 drivers on XP. Much to my dismay, the MOTHEROARD drivers won't install after installing XP. Now, I can't get internet, or get anything to work because of my motherboard drivers.

Is this a fresh install off a legitimate Windows CD? If it is boot from the CD, install Windows, then install the motherboard drivers before the video card - NIC, everything else first. Then download the most current drivers for the video. If you do not have a legal copy of Windows, but just copied some files onto a CD then nothing will help. I wasn't clear on this because you said "I had recently gotten XP from school" You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users

"so I wiped my drive c and tried to install nvidia nforce2 drivers on XP" If you wiped your drive there is no O/S on there it is just blank. You need to install XP booting from the XP CD, the formatting/partitioning tools are included in the install. After install the first item is an internet connection so you can visit Windows Update, once you have undertaken all the updates you can start looking for other drivers.............