Network Card or "Ethernet adapter" drivers help...

Well, my PC came with a network card, and that was self-installed.

I recently had the fortune of losing EVERYTHING on my PC cry and had to install a dodgy copy of XP Pro 😗 and bugger... my PC hasn't installed my card, but it's aware of it's existence 😄

I tell it to locate the drivers online, and it can't find them 😬 how can I find out the make of it, or whatever you need to know, so I can download them? 😕

look on the box 😖

my PC's almost a year old.... the box left long ago 😛

is it on the bill you got from the PC?
you need a name before you can go get the drivers 😖

is there anyway of finding it out via the PC?

if it can't locate it, you can't get the name...
you mean, you checked in device manager?

it knows there's a device there... but doesn't know what model/make etc....

it doesn't give it as conflict, so I don't think there is a need to get the drivers update on it... it worked before? it's in the right place? connected correctly?

it doesn't need an update, because there is no driver at all 😛

it worked before, but hasn't work since I installed XP Pro and lost everything 😬

i'm assuming everything is connected before because I haven't touched it.

How do I know you're not lieing to me again 😛

so you went from ME or something to XP?

if so, the card is simply not XP compatible

no, i had XP Home edition....

then my OS completely screwed up

so i got a friend to give me XP Pro

and I've lose the device driver that came with my PC originally 😛

and raz.... that was a classic 😉

Well I'm not helping you out ever again schmoll

just cos you don't know what's wrong 🥷

Well its obvious that all you need to do is ...

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nice trick 🥷

I checked a few sites on this ...

do you have the SP packs installed?
first do that and then I think you still gotta get that driver so that if you install he recognises it

well it came with SP2.... bit I'm gonna go get all the updates from windows now 🙂

OK, I'm downloading some .NET framework...

there's 2 others: some CD thing and some journal thing, but they dont seem relevant 😬

there's nothing else available

as said in a belgian movie:

"I can't come up with a good idea now, even if I dressed in drag and did the hoola"

I'm gonna contact a few friends who are good at these things, see what they can think of

I wouldn't install the framework - it'll cause you problems 🥷