Help Please Help! - Driver needed

[Kinesis]

I am so hoping someone could help me. I am trying to find the driver for the onboard ethernet for an HP 952x Computer (AMD Chip Board).

Anyhow have source, suggestion? I had to format the drive as it was infected with viruses!

Thanks in advance!

 

[stevty2889]

Are you sure it has onboard ethernet? I looked on the HP site, and can't find any network drivers for any of the 900 series HP's.

 

[stevty2889]

Did you re-install windows using the disc that came with the HP? If so, maybe this will help you find your driver: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/ser...wer.do?threadId=206047

 

[Kinesis]

Thanks a lot stevty2889 that link was a big help. Yes, I looked over the HP site for the drivers, and no there were no disks that came with the computer. I had to format the drive and delete the patitions because of a virus. But now the Ethernet (on-board) and the sound (on-board) devices are not detected. I believe from the link you should me that the sound is AC97 and nVidia Drivers should solve that. I will attempt that when I get home today.

Any other thoughts?

I just can't believe that HP would send a system out that by default Windows XP does not recognize the devices on, and then not include the device drivers on a seperate disk.

I have contacted HP, but as of yet no reply.

Thanks again for your help. Any futher assistance would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Fern]

Hey Kinesis,

I'm linking a site called driverguide.com HERE. They have for (free) d/l all kinds of drivers (over 100,000). I looked quickly but didn't seem to find what you need. But I don't have enough details.

 

[stevty2889]

The drivers were probably stored on one of the partitions. Companies like HP like to do that. They should have sent you some kind of recovery discs at least. I have been googling, and looking on driverguide, and haven't been able to find any drivers for the machine, so hopefully HP will get back to you. You could also try to run Aida 32 on the machine to try to identify the network chip and maybe then it will be easier to find drivers for it.

 

[Kinesis]

Yeah I had figured that. THe partition was deleted in the Windows reinstall. My bad...and I guess that will be the downfall for this system. Ugg!!

Thank you everyone for your help. HP has not gotten back to me, and it looks like it is screwed. Or should I say I am screwed!

 

[Kinesis]

Well I have gotten 2 replies from HP and they have sent me two files which contain drivers for windows.....but only up to windows 2000. Not XP.

I have discovered theat the motherboard (which has the on-board LAN) is made by MSI and it is the MS-6373 and I downloaded their nForce420D drivers and it found the network card, but when I do an IP config everything comes back as 0.0.0.0 .

So I tried the lastest nForce Drivers from Nvidia. Same result. Anyone have any other thoughts?

 

[stevty2889]

what do you have connected to your network card?

 

[Kinesis]

Well thanks for the help folks. Solved the problem. The nForce drivers worked, but I had to set the IP address, default gateway and subnet mask seperately. Not sure why they can't do it automatically. I have a router between me and the ISP/Adsl modem, and everyone of my other systems detect it automatically. So who know why?

The fact of the matter is, the system is up and running.

Thank you everyone!