Cannot install driver

[tran4241]

I just build a brand new computer. I am not able to download the driver for the ethernet port. When I go to the device manager there is a ! at the ethernet controller tab.

I was wondering if anybody were to know how this were to be fixed. I am not allowed on the internet on that computer because of this and I was planning on using the computer for MMO video games.

 

[Quiltface]

Is the NIC built into the Mobo? What mobo do you have? Have you tried going to their website and downloading the drivers for it, perhaps the chipset driver?

 

[tran4241]

Yes the NIC is in the mobo. I have a EVGA P55 V mobo. and I can't even connect to the internet at all on that computer how would I be able to download the drives without a connection?

 

[Quiltface]

use the computer you are using now, save it to a usb drive or something. did you mobo not come with a drivers disk?

 

[tran4241]

It did. I downloaded most of it. But there was another error there. Maybe that is what is the biggest problem. I was able to install most of it. But I tried to install "Intel Matrix Storage" and it give me an error message saying, "This computer does not meat the minimum requirements for installing this software". But I wasn't sure, because I had bought most of the better components and they were all supposed to be compatible.

 

[Quiltface]

that doesnt sound important anyway...

try this

ftp://ftp.evga.com/driver/Marvell_Setup.zip

 

[tran4241]

Doesn't sound important but on the download program it calls it a "essential driver"....

 

[Quiltface]

eh what OS are you running... maybe its for a different OS... that link i gave you is from their website for the network card.

 

[tran4241]

I'm running Windows 7. I tried the link and put it on the computer. But it appears that nothing has changed.

 

[Quiltface]

ftp://ftp.evga.com/Driver/Intel_Network_XP.zip

try that one it says xp but try it anyway.

here is the chipset

ftp://ftp.evga.com/driver/INF_allOS_9.1.2.1008_PV.exe

 

[tran4241]

When I had tried to download these it told me that Windows cannot open either of the files and it needs to know what program I would like to use to do so. Pretty new to all this so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do from here.

 

[tran4241]

It told me that it cannot open these files because it needs to know what program to use.

 

[Quiltface]

both of them said that?

 

[tran4241]

Yes. Both did.

 

[Quiltface]

can you open any exe or zip files or just not those?

 

[tran4241]

I was able to open the zipped file you linked earlier.

 

[Quiltface]

weird can you open it again

 

[tran4241]

The zipped folder? yes

 

[tran4241]

I found the zipped folder for the xp and it didn't work. It said it wasn't supported by my OS.

 

[tran4241]

I checked some other forum posts and it says that the marvell that you linked earlier doesn't support the v series of my motherboard. So now I am trying to research for another driver install.