i had this dell inspiero 6000 laptop and it was real slow and shitty...So i took my windows xp prof. disk and re-booted the whole comp so i just had windows xp prof on it and everythign else was gone. But now i can't see to get an internet connection at all. Not with a modum or ethernet cable, and my wireless software is gone. It shoes i have no IP address, i dont know what is wrong. I think i need to order my computer recovery cds with all the software..Does anyone know wut i can do othr then that to get internet access??

It's quite odd that a fresh install of XP wouldn't see your ethernet nor your modem. The only thing I can think of would be to go to Dell's website on a working machine and acquire the drivers for your ethernet, modem and wireless. Several different wireless solutions are listed for your machine, but your specific wireless solution should be listed somewhere in your documentation. Go to support.dell.com, click on Drivers and Downloads, then either enter the "service tag" (instructions for finding that are listed) or use the dropdown menus, selecting Inspiron in the first and then 6000 in the second. After that, find the drivers you need, download them, put them on a CD or something, transfer them to your lappy and install them. Hopefully that will fix the problem and allow you to access the Internet in some way.

Good luck to you!