Reply With QuoteMight be easier and quicker to get the model number of the board and download the drivers from the manufacturers website on another computer and USB them over.
Mickstv
WinXP ethernet lost drivers
I have now suddenly yellow question marks next to the ethernet controller, no driver installed.
This computer is always off line and the Ethernet is only used to interact with external hardware, no virus or malware possible.
The computer finds no drivers on the WinXP SP3 CD and wants to connect to the the Internet (through the Ethernet card) to download them, typical Microsoft :rolleyes
I have installed WinXP countless times on countless computers and never had to download Ethernet drivers, or drivers for the keyboard and mouse for that matter.
Can anybody tell me the exact location on the XP Cd where the drivers are or know another solution other than format c: ?
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Might be easier and quicker to get the model number of the board and download the drivers from the manufacturers website on another computer and USB them over.
Mickstv
Last edited by mickstv; 16-03-11 at 11:39 PM.
Uncle Fester (17-03-11)
deffinately
put cpuz on it, get the model, dl the drivers
unless the lan is kaput ? caput ? carpoot?
Uncle Fester (17-03-11)
Jawohl, I ended up doing that and the LAN was not kaputt.
Still strange why the WINCD does not show up any generic drivers.
I can not recall ever having to download or use specific drivers for on board Ethernet before.
But I may have a spot of dementia and have become a bit spoilt with the simplicity of Unix-like installs and forgot that Windows needs new special drivers every time I change the direction of my mouse.
WIN7 couldn't even identify my Logitech mouse so WIN7 still lies unused side by side with other more practical Operating Systems somewhere on one of my PCs
Update: A deletion of features that work well and ain't broke but are deemed outdated in order to add things that are up to date and broken.
Compatibility: A word soon to be deleted from our dictionaries as it is outdated.
Humans: Entities that are not only outdated but broken... AI-self-learning-update-error...terminate...terminate...
sounds like you might have a virus in the pc happened to me once and when i investigated further found a virus in the pc id reformat the whole hardrive if i were you!!!
Originally Posted by nomeat
Jawohl, I ended up doing that and the LAN was not kaputt.
Still strange why the WINCD does not show up any generic drivers.
I can not recall ever having to download or use specific drivers for on board Ethernet before.
But I may have a spot of dementia and have become a bit spoilt with the simplicity of Unix-like installs and forgot that Windows needs new special drivers every time I change the direction of my mouse.
WIN7 couldn't even identify my Logitech mouse so WIN7 still lies unused side by side with other more practical Operating Systems somewhere on one of my PCs
Hi nomeat, I have no doubt that when you did the first install of xp it would have detected and installed as many drivers as it could find, but this only happens during a install.
Looking at one of my XP disc's pretty well all of the files are either compressed or extensions are different and I'm guessing this is why when you put the xp disc in it didn't find any new drivers.
Mickstv
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