Got an ASUS "A7N8X-X" nForce2 mobo. It has an onboard NIC but this computer wasn't going to connect to the internet at all so before I installed XP Home I disabled it in BIOS. PC up and running fine with no issues.
Turns out now that this Mobo is going to have to have a network printer on it... so surprise! I need the NIC after all. I go back to BIOS and switch it from Disabled to Auto and then save and boot into XP.
XP finds that there's a new network controller as new hardware and searches for drivers but can't find any. OK. No problem. I go to the ASUS site and download the NIC drivers and unzip them to the desktop and tell XP to look for them there. It still can't find them.
I then use the setup install shield program that came with the drivers. It whirls around and says it installs it fine but looking in the Device Manager still shows the big yellow question mark and infact it won't recognize this NIC. I tried just using generic XP LAN drivers... but XP returned that it couldn't find any. Next time I tried installing the drivers I put them on a floppy AND a CD and told it to search for them on them in both places. It says it can't find any device drivers but under the path it's pointing to the correct .INF
Regardless I can't figure out what went wrong or how to fix it.
Any ideas?
Thanks!!
Turns out now that this Mobo is going to have to have a network printer on it... so surprise! I need the NIC after all. I go back to BIOS and switch it from Disabled to Auto and then save and boot into XP.
XP finds that there's a new network controller as new hardware and searches for drivers but can't find any. OK. No problem. I go to the ASUS site and download the NIC drivers and unzip them to the desktop and tell XP to look for them there. It still can't find them.
I then use the setup install shield program that came with the drivers. It whirls around and says it installs it fine but looking in the Device Manager still shows the big yellow question mark and infact it won't recognize this NIC. I tried just using generic XP LAN drivers... but XP returned that it couldn't find any. Next time I tried installing the drivers I put them on a floppy AND a CD and told it to search for them on them in both places. It says it can't find any device drivers but under the path it's pointing to the correct .INF
Regardless I can't figure out what went wrong or how to fix it.
Any ideas?
Thanks!!
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