Mobo Ethernet Driver

[Dougster]

Hi,

I've just wiped and reinstalled Windows XP on a computer I bought a year ago and haven't actively used for a while. I'm planning on giving it to my sister as a present before she goes to university.

I've only had one problem. The motherboard has an onboard Ethernet 10/100 controller, but it isn't one XP has drivers for already. I can't remember what drivers were installed before I wiped the hd, and I'm finding it impossible to track down the drivers now!

The motherboard is a Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro. The download page for this product on the Leadtek website is here. However, there's no Ethernet driver! There is a download page for the K7NCR18D Pro 2, which does have a 3COM Ethernet driver on it, but that driver wont install with the controller I have!

Does anyone have any idea about how I should track down the right driver? Is there a way of finding out what the Ethernet controller is / is made by? Needless to say I don't have manual/driver disk for the motherboard.

Much obliged.

James

 

[AnonymouseUser]

That mobo has the Nforce2 chipset and uses Nvidia's own ethernet controller. Nvidia uses a unified driver for the Nforce mobo, which includes all of the onboard motherboard components (chipset, ethernet, audio, IDE, vga). From the Leadtek site you will want the chipset drivers v2.45 (dated 2003/10/17). You could even use the latest unified drivers from Nvidia here (dated 2004/09/17).

 

[Dougster]

AnonymouseUser, thanks very much for your help.