Help with botched Intel ProSet NIC install/drivers

gang, I am trying to re-do an ancient Gateway Profile 4 all-in-one. ugly machine, but it runs.
problem is getting the onboard nic going. a previous stall mis-installed Intel Proset - some version for Win2K I suspect, but my install is Windows XP Home.

The device showing with a big yellow ? mark in Device manager is:
VEN_8086&DEV_1039&SUBSYS_1049107B&REV_81

the only driver package i can find is the big wad that tries to install all sorts of things instead of just giving me drivers plainly id'd in a folder "WinXP-32" or somesuch.

can someone help? when I try to install the right one-big-package from intel it bails out saying one must remove the previous proset package. The previous Proset package was botched: it is not possible to uninstall it.
short of erasing the OS and starting over, if I just had the BARE DRIVERS I could simply update via Device Manager and avoid all those programs Intel insists on my having.

thanks for your help
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If you have the Windows XP disc, I suggest you repair the installation. Your programs and files will be untouched.

http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/138-how-to-repair-windows-xp/

 

Is this the computer?
http://www.referenceguide.com/reviews/gatewayprofile4.htm

Any idea which of the three models?

From another thread with the same VID and PID as yours, I got sent to this for the NIC download
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/18717

Maybe this is what you have been trying to install.