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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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/d...¶m=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. |
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