why can i not get the edimax wireless adapter to work on a old pc

TakeThis

toejumper wrote: »

can i not inastall a mew operating system like vista

No...forget about that.

GunJack

it may be that you can't use windows update because support for non-service pack 3 has stopped. You will probably need to download SP3 on another machine, burn to disk and install it that way. This will give you access to windows update again.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=25129

I had to do this recently on a machine I fixed, right PITA

TakeThis

GunJack wrote: »

it may be that you can't use windows update because support for non-service pack 3 has stopped. You will probably need to download SP3 on another machine, burn to disk and install it that way. This will give you access to windows update again.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=25129

I had to do this recently on a machine I fixed, right PITA

Of course the problem with this, is if it actually is Windows XP 64bit. I doubt that it is, but..

GunJack

TakeThis wrote: »

Of course the problem with this, is if it actually is Windows XP 64bit. I doubt that it is, but..

It would be a bit of a rarity if it is......

TakeThis

So, what is it? 32 bit or 64 bit?

If my other instructions were too complicated...

Computers running Windows XP

Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.

If "x64 Edition" is listed under System, you’re running the 64-bit version of Windows XP.

If you don’t see "x64 Edition" listed under System, you’re running the 32-bit version of Windows XP.