New XP install, no network connection?

[Pathogen03]

Just got a friends old pc that was sitting in his corner for a while. Rewired the whole thing (he botched it horribly.)


Abit AV8

Athlon 3700+ 64

Windows XP Pro



I load it up, i go to network connections to try to set it up.. and all i find is two I394 (Firewire?) ports... no mention of a Local Area Connection...


What do i need to do to get it to register?

On pluging a network cable in the back, usually there are green and yellow LEDs that light up.. for this one its only a yellow. is this relevant as well?

Thank you for your help.

note: do NOT have MB CD (i dont know if XP can detect his fancy gigabit natively or not), but that is my current route on troubleshooting. Just have to find a CD to burn it on to now, im all out.



edit -> Checked device manager, ethernet controller has the happy yellow ? mark, and cant find any drivers on the pc to install, and cant check the internet for drivers either..
Is this as simple as going out, buying a blank cd and copying the gigabit drivers over?

 

[MustISO]

If you go into the hardware manager does XP even see the card/NIC? Could just need a driver but it should at least see an NIC of some kind.

 

[Trashman]

"Is this as simple as going out, buying a blank cd and copying the gigabit drivers over?"

We all have asked that question many a times when we are asked to work on friends computers, we hope it's that simple, but by the sound of it....it "should" a simple fix of downloading gigabit drivers.

 

[Pathogen03]

Gigabit drivers worked!



and when installing winzip (to install winrar amusingly enough) it rebooted and now cant load windows! yay.

time to isolate if its a video card issue or hard drive..

as it gets to the hard drive part of boot and blank screens... no safe mode, nothing.