I just installed XP on an HP Vista system.

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bobdragster

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I just installed XP on my grandpa's HP Pavillion a6210z desktop computer. It had Vista, but he couldn't figure it out for the life of him cause it is so complicated, so he wanted to go back to XP. I installed it for him, and something happened thats never happened before; The ethernet port would not be read by windows XP, so he couldn't get internet.

I figure there is some driver for the ethernet port or the motherboard that I need, but what motherboard/ethernet driver do I need?

Can someone tell me what this model HP has? Is there a universal driver? Maybe a "forced" driver with general settings?


LET ME KNOW PLEASE.

Thank you.
 
right click on MY COMPUTER, choose PROPERTIES, click on the HARDWARE tab, click DEVICE MANAGER, look for the exclamation mark on NETWORK ADAPTORS, expand it, the name of the device is there. now just google the name and add "driver" and "xp." once you get the driver, go back to where you see the exclamation marks and install driver.

more easier way would be searching the model name of the computer on the manufacturer's website for driver downloads.

you should save the drivers for future use
 
for 34 bucks you can get 3 wireless cards from frys when they're onsale. you guys have a router right?
 
dznutz said:
for 34 bucks you can get 3 wireless cards from frys when they're onsale. you guys have a router right?
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Why 3?

Anyways, you can get adapters for very cheap these days. Look at eBay or Newegg. They have many. If you go for eBay, don't be tricked into the ISA 10MPBs ones...
 
Lol @ ISA...

Anyway...just buy one cheap, you can probably find simplistic ones on craigslist for relatively cheap, or $20 retail for a standard ethernet card.
 
diduknowthat said:
He's just saying that the ethernet card is overpriced, which is true.

Here's a cheap one.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833180004
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Although true, wireless can only do 54MB/s.... While wired can do 10/100. Dependent on the router.

Lol @ ISA...

Anyway...just buy one cheap, you can probably find simplistic ones on craigslist for relatively cheap, or $20 retail for a standard ethernet card.
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Hey! I still use ISA :D $20 is overkill for a card. I'd recon $10 could get you a decent card. Although eBay has like $7 ones..
 
Don't buy one, that's stupid. Go to HP's online support chat, give them the model number and tell them you downgraded to XP. They'll give you a link to the driver, no technical knowledge required.

That's what I did.
 
if hp is correct the you've got an Asus M2N68-LA motherboard
which has a PCI Realtek RTL8201N network card on it

can't seem to get the drivers from either the realtek or asus site...
at least you got some more info on what you've got
 
bobdragster said:
I just installed XP on my grandpa's HP Pavillion a6210z desktop computer. It had Vista, but he couldn't figure it out for the life of him cause it is so complicated, so he wanted to go back to XP. I installed it for him, and something happened thats never happened before; The ethernet port would not be read by windows XP, so he couldn't get internet.

I figure there is some driver for the ethernet port or the motherboard that I need, but what motherboard/ethernet driver do I need?

Can someone tell me what this model HP has? Is there a universal driver? Maybe a "forced" driver with general settings?


LET ME KNOW PLEASE.

Thank you.
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Try downloading and installing this driver since that motherboard has a nforce 430 chipset in it.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_430_410_winxp32_8.26.html


This has ethernet, sata driver,smbus driver and others all included.
 
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