Help With Old PC XP Install

[Final Maxim]

yo

my girlfriends pc was slow as s**t so ive just reinstalled a fresh copy of XP and reformatted. Works fine except 1 problem.

I cant use the ethernet port to go online and download drivers etc that i may need.

in Hardware Device Manager;

"- Other Devices (!)
- Ethernet Controller (!)
- Multimedia Controller (!)
- Video Controller" (!)

under those, i have yellow icon. How do i distinguish what drivers i actually need to get those to work? im guessing it will be in with motherboard drivers?

can you tell what motherboard you have without downloading software? like, using windows

 

[Gareth]

The short answer is no, you need to look up the make / model of the computer and download the driver for the Ethernet Controller, then go from there.

 

[Adam.]

What make is the computer?

Get the Ethernet driver from the suppliers site and run windows update.

 

[Don]

In Device Manager, find item, right click and go to Properties...then click tab (Hardware ID or Details), copy that information (CTRL+C) and paste into Google

So if you get this as an example (its my network card) 'PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_76731462&REV_06'

the revise it to 'PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168' and google it.

You need something like Everest or Speccy (www.piriform.com) <- free

 

[Final Maxim]

its this one im pretty sure

http://www.ukclearancecentre.co.uk/...op-pc-pentium-4-512mb-ram-windows-xp-pro.html

so its just dell website to download ethernet drivers for dell gx260?

 

[Adam.]

Yup, you'll get all the dell drivers off the support site.

 

[Gareth]

its this one im pretty sure

http://www.ukclearancecentre.co.uk/...op-pc-pentium-4-512mb-ram-windows-xp-pro.html

so its just dell website to download ethernet drivers for dell gx260?

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...=PLX_PNT_P4_GX260&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=

 

[Don]

If its dell...go to the support and drivers section, enter service tag...or find make/model...and then select OS and the drivers are there.

 

[Final Maxim]

sorted, cheers lads!

512ram, pentium4 2.4ghz

probably as fast as mine (c2d, 2gbram) on bootup and loading web pages !!