On april 25, 2012, I purchased cat5 cable for data transfer from host xp to target xp. It failed. On 4/30/12, I installed Zinstall. It failed too. I was told the failure resulted from not uninstalling anti-virus, and windows firewall suite. Uninstalling the items did not fix the problem. Finally, I did a network diagnostic check and found the following results:
On the old computer the network adaptor (0000008) broadcom net extreme 57xx gigabit controller failed, and dns server search order controller failed. On the target computer following failures were noted: (00000008) broadcom net xtreme 57xx gigabit controller failed, and (00000010) qwest 11n wireless usb adaptor failed, the dns server search order controller also failed. I need to do something to eradicate the mess. Please help.

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Computer OS: Windows XP
Browser: IE

Already Tried:
tried to disable the broadcam and the adaptor. Disabling the Com 1 port. Reading various articles on cat5. placed the direct cable from my old computer into the new computer. Tried to place my router internet cable into the new computer. tried to place the cat5 into host and target again- was asked to name a port- didn't now what to do, so I used com 1.