Mobo

[scottwile]

hey,
i have an hp a320n. i just put on xp pro from hp home and i no longer have the internet. in device manger it shows the yellow question mark by ethernet controller, meaning the driver isn't installed. normally i would put in the cd to install the driver...but hp didn't give me any cds (or floppys) with my computer. soo i need to find what motherboard i have cause i have on board lan or ethernet card inorder to get a driver for it.

any ideas are welcome.
thanks

[Smurfette]

Get AIDA32 from HERE (http://www.aida32.hu/aida32.php) and install that.
It'll tell you everything it's possible to find out by querying your hardware.
It'll also give you a link to the download or home page of the hardware manufacturers.

[firefox]

goto HP Web Site (http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/softwareDownloadIndex.jhtml?reg=&cc=us&softitem=pv-17514-1&prodId=hppavilion364171&lc=en&plc=&sw_lang=en&pagetype=software) and download teh file SP23996.exe it is the original driver for the network card that came with your system. Then run that file.

[scottwile]

firefox.. i downloaded what you said. tried it and no luck. it says...- Click OK to continue. The original drivers are now stored in the C:\HP\Drivers\LAN folder...- so i did that

but in the lan folder their are 4 other folders. i don't know which one to use. i tried them all and none seemed to work. but now in the network connections folder i have a connection. and the ethernet with the yellow question mark is gone. but when i open IE6 it doesn't have a connection.

[TheKiler]

To answer your topic question, the answer is....

If your computer works, you have a motherboard.

[scottwile]

i know that my comuter has a motherboard, the question was which one does it have?
"Mobo"
"how do i know what i have?"

soory for the miss communication,

[shn]

Originally posted by scottwile@19 February 2004 - 23:56
i know that my comuter has a motherboard, the question was which one does it have?
"Mobo"
"how do i know what i have?"

soory for the miss communication,
http://www.aida32.hu/aida-download.php :)

[Smurfette]

Run the internet connection wizard.

[ck-uk]

Goto device manager mate right click the device,then update driver,in the new box that appears choose no you'll look yourself,then navigate to the folder.The other three are for different os's probably :)

[peat moss]

I like this program very simple to use! :)

http://www.zhangduo.com/udi.html

[scottwile]

peat moss, i tired firefox's sugestion. and it didn't seem to work. but now it see my ethernet as something its not, how to i get rid of that so i see the yellow question mark again, so i can try your program?

[peat moss]

Originally posted by scottwile@20 February 2004 - 13:34
peat moss, i tired firefox's sugestion. and it didn't seem to work. but now it see my ethernet as something its not, how to i get rid of that so i see the yellow question mark again, so i can try your program?
Easy friend go back to device manager delete ethernet card or roll back driver for the card and reboot then try UDI. :)



UDI Will tell you the name, number ,serial, or what ever you what write it down then go to drivers.com. find your driver. http://members.driverguide.com/ums/index.p...69902084v950608 (http://members.driverguide.com/ums/index.php?action=l&ac=1069902084v950608)


LOGIN drivers

PASSWORD all

[peat moss]

Scott you should be able to use xp drivers tho I'm a little confused either delete network card and reboot or use hardware wizard to install drivers from xp disk. I was helping someone with an win98 issue early on so I wasn't thinking :D

[scottwile]

i deleted it and then there just wasn't an ethernet or network connection anymore so i had to go back though and somehow i got it back. but when i got it back, it came back the same as it left, without the yellow question mark. it still has the wrong driver installed. how do i get rid of this?

all my drivers are messed up... sound- 56k modem- ect. is it because i upgraded from hp home to xp pro with out formatting and i am using 30gb of a 120gb drive?
if i format will it fix driver problems?
thanks alot for the help

[peat moss]

Well I guess you could format & reinstall thats the easy way out :lol: JK sounds like a good idea Scott Remember to back up ! Also reinstall your motherboard drivers after XP install :)

[kaiweiler]

Hey Wile, I have a PCI Ethernet Card if you want that
It would solve your problem about finding drivers for your onboard lan
but it might be a good idea to format anyway, get rid of some of the garbage on there

Kai