Ethernet controller question mark

[Starvoyager]

Im trying to help a friend with her older machine with mellenium on it.
I restored it and its running fine but in device manager the ethernet
controller is showing yellow question mark and the exclamation. I have
installed the driver disk that came with it. I have tried to let it search
for drivers on the disk and the hard drive but it cant find it. I ripped it
out and restarted and it tries to reload the driver and still cant find it.
Isnt this a standard driver with windows? Anyone got anything else I and try?
I told her it might be easier just to go to worst buy and get a new ethernet
card but if the contoller in device manager isnt working would that solve the
problem?

Greg

[James Egan]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:35:01 -0700, Starvoyager
> wrote:

>Im trying to help a friend with her older machine with mellenium on it.
>I restored it and its running fine but in device manager the ethernet
>controller is showing yellow question mark and the exclamation. I have
>installed the driver disk that came with it. I have tried to let it search
>for drivers on the disk and the hard drive but it cant find it. I ripped it
>out and restarted and it tries to reload the driver and still cant find it.
>Isnt this a standard driver with windows? Anyone got anything else I and try?
>I told her it might be easier just to go to worst buy and get a new ethernet
>card but if the contoller in device manager isnt working would that solve the
>problem?
>

It was a common problem that a network card appeared as a "pci
ethernet controller" instead of being listed under network adaptors in
the device manager.

If that's the case here, delete it in device manager and re-boot. On
re-start use the driver disk or cd supplied with your network card
when prompted for the driver. It should then appear in the device
manager in the correct place.


Jim.

[Starvoyager]

Thank you for replying but in my original post I stated that I already did
that. There is no disk that came with the network card it came with the
computer when It was new. Its a gateway I guess about 3 or 4 years old.

Greg

"James Egan" wrote:

>
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:35:01 -0700, Starvoyager
> > wrote:
>
> >Im trying to help a friend with her older machine with mellenium on it.
> >I restored it and its running fine but in device manager the ethernet
> >controller is showing yellow question mark and the exclamation. I have
> >installed the driver disk that came with it. I have tried to let it search
> >for drivers on the disk and the hard drive but it cant find it. I ripped it
> >out and restarted and it tries to reload the driver and still cant find it.
> >Isnt this a standard driver with windows? Anyone got anything else I and try?
> >I told her it might be easier just to go to worst buy and get a new ethernet
> >card but if the contoller in device manager isnt working would that solve the
> >problem?
> >
>
> It was a common problem that a network card appeared as a "pci
> ethernet controller" instead of being listed under network adaptors in
> the device manager.
>
> If that's the case here, delete it in device manager and re-boot. On
> re-start use the driver disk or cd supplied with your network card
> when prompted for the driver. It should then appear in the device
> manager in the correct place.
>
>
> Jim.
>
>

[Mart]

Might be worth running Belarc Advisor if you're not sure of the details of
the network card :-
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

But If you know the model number of the gateway PC and details of the
network card, you *might* get the correct driver on this page :-
http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn&param=2522162
or just try a refresh on the "Drivers & Download" tab and enter the model
number.

Good luck

Mart



"Starvoyager" > wrote in message
...
> Thank you for replying but in my original post I stated that I already did
> that. There is no disk that came with the network card it came with the
> computer when It was new. Its a gateway I guess about 3 or 4 years old.
>
> Greg
>
> "James Egan" wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:35:01 -0700, Starvoyager
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >Im trying to help a friend with her older machine with mellenium on it.
>> >I restored it and its running fine but in device manager the ethernet
>> >controller is showing yellow question mark and the exclamation. I have
>> >installed the driver disk that came with it. I have tried to let it
>> >search
>> >for drivers on the disk and the hard drive but it cant find it. I ripped
>> >it
>> >out and restarted and it tries to reload the driver and still cant find
>> >it.
>> >Isnt this a standard driver with windows? Anyone got anything else I and
>> >try?
>> >I told her it might be easier just to go to worst buy and get a new
>> >ethernet
>> >card but if the contoller in device manager isnt working would that
>> >solve the
>> >problem?
>> >
>>
>> It was a common problem that a network card appeared as a "pci
>> ethernet controller" instead of being listed under network adaptors in
>> the device manager.
>>
>> If that's the case here, delete it in device manager and re-boot. On
>> re-start use the driver disk or cd supplied with your network card
>> when prompted for the driver. It should then appear in the device
>> manager in the correct place.
>>
>>
>> Jim.
>>
>>