Lost-invisable wireless card drivers

I had to install Xp again the other day (SP1 blush.gif) Did all the updates to get up to SP2. the last updates was about 62 of them. Anyway after they were all installed and needed to reboot my comp. When It restarted. I couldn't use my wireless card. I had installed it before I did all the updates. Do it many a time without a problem. But this time I lost? my wireless. So i uninstalled the drivers from the device manager (yes I unpluged it) then restarted it. After it was on again i plugged it ,it's a usb antenna from when I had Bellsouth DSL. Works fine with my Dlink. But whenI pluged it back in ,nothing happened. No "New Hardwar Found..nothing. So I uninstalled everything Bellsouth I could find ,rebooted and plugged it in again,Still nothing. Usually when I plug it in I just put the disk in and let Windows do the rest. Always worked before. And Ideas about how I can get Windows to installit automatically again?

 

Did you also download, install sp2 ?

 

Yeah .That's when all the trouble began. I think I'll have to re-reinstall XP again:banghead. I just noticed that my sound drivers are wrong and so are the video?? I have AC97 and it's something I never heard of before? Never had this problem before!!??confused I've installed Xp on this computer 3 times before but it never screwed up the drivers before. I know Xp has them already ,it's a 8 year old Motherboard so it's not like it has to have any NEW drivers. think the newest is the sound and it was from 2003 as the "latest".

 

All computers need to keep as updated as possible, especially if that old, as driver updates repair the bugs that the original software might have had.
XP2 is known to cause a few problems, on older machines, especially if drivers are out of date.
When you reinstalled , did you install the motherboard drivers?
If I have not got them I use www.driveragent.com free scan , non intrusive, except you accept a small file download to enable it to scan you computer (a very small fee lasts ages, to get drivers from there ), -If you don't want to spend, just copy driver names needed, and use Everest 220 ( afree download from majorgeeks) to find the site to download, free from.
and let it run through my system,and it tells me if a driver is wrong/poor, and usually offers a download to update it. The older the motherboard, the more benifit you get from updated drivers.