OK. Let's start from the beginning.
My old shuttle case decided to die on me, aparently killing the SATA controller and leaving the rest in tact. This is unacceptable, since my main HD is a SATA hard drive. I yank all the hardware except the broken mobo out of the shuttle case, get a new mobo, a new case, and PSU on 2nd day air from newegg. All is well, I get it tonight, its assembled, I jump through hoops of XP repair installing to get it to like my new mobo. Anyways, XP finally seems to work, but my main issue:
The network adapter won't work! I'm currently typing from my dads laptop at the moment, so I need help. Before you say drivers, I'd like to point out that I have already attempted to install the drivers bundled with my mobo, I've tried updated versions of them off the internet. No matter what I seem to do, I can't manage to get the darn ethernet adapter to work. It always seems to hate the drivers, and XP won't install them. I can FORCE the ethernet adapter to install with the drivers, but then it won't start and I'm back to square one.
Mobo: ASUS K8U-X
Thanks for help ahead of time.
EDIT: Aparently if I uninstall the device, try to add new hardware, then force it to install the ethernet controller, at the end of the add new hardware screen it says it added the new controller (has error) and controller miniport (which is working fine) yet when I click finish, I can't find this miniport its talking about. I'm so confused
My old shuttle case decided to die on me, aparently killing the SATA controller and leaving the rest in tact. This is unacceptable, since my main HD is a SATA hard drive. I yank all the hardware except the broken mobo out of the shuttle case, get a new mobo, a new case, and PSU on 2nd day air from newegg. All is well, I get it tonight, its assembled, I jump through hoops of XP repair installing to get it to like my new mobo. Anyways, XP finally seems to work, but my main issue:
The network adapter won't work! I'm currently typing from my dads laptop at the moment, so I need help. Before you say drivers, I'd like to point out that I have already attempted to install the drivers bundled with my mobo, I've tried updated versions of them off the internet. No matter what I seem to do, I can't manage to get the darn ethernet adapter to work. It always seems to hate the drivers, and XP won't install them. I can FORCE the ethernet adapter to install with the drivers, but then it won't start and I'm back to square one.
Mobo: ASUS K8U-X
Thanks for help ahead of time.
EDIT: Aparently if I uninstall the device, try to add new hardware, then force it to install the ethernet controller, at the end of the add new hardware screen it says it added the new controller (has error) and controller miniport (which is working fine) yet when I click finish, I can't find this miniport its talking about. I'm so confused
