network adapter-drivers

kduffy101

ive just installed windows7 on my brothers pc,but cant get connected to the internet,
im getting a message saying windows could not detect drivers for network adapter...
any help would be great,
thanks inadvance

TakeThis

Make and model of PC?

Otherwise, Motherboard details via CPU-Z

kduffy101

theres nothing on the outside of the machine,will i be able to download/run cpu-z without internet connection?

kduffy101

burned cpu-z onto a cd on laptop,then ran it brothers pc...its saying motherboard-foxconn 661 7ml,is this the info thats needed?
when i checked installed devices there was a yellow triangle at ethernet connection,when i tried to update drivers it says windows could not find drivers.

GunJack

^^ yes, because you'll either have to:-

1. use a usb wifi dongle to get the pc on the net that way to look for the ethernet drivers,

or

2. find the drivers on your pc and pop them on a USB stick/burn to CD as you've just done with cpuz

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/support/downloads.aspx?ProductModel=661FX7MF-RS&TypeID=en-us0000004

Just had a quick look on foxconn's support site, should be the system and chipset driver on this page

GunJack

oops, I've just tried downloading it and it looks like it's corrupted and contains no files

GunJack

it also looks like foxconn haven't made drivers for W7 for that mobo, which is quite old now I suspect..might have to use the usb wifi dongle method, then use something like drivermax to ID and get a driver

TakeThis

The XP Driver is here

Drivers up to Vista here

GunJack

TakeThis wrote: »

The XP Driver is here

Drivers up to Vista here

good find TT, the vista driver may well work under Win7, which is what has been installed

TakeThis

Thinking about it...those Vista Drivers may not work.

Better to use the Windows Update catalogue via Internet Explorer.

Once downloaded, you can point the Device Manager towards the Driver if necessary.
I haven't checked your Hardware string, so not sure there is a perfect match there. Though it is simple to modify the Driver to include your HD string.

kduffy101

just reinstalled xp,he is going to buy a new pc after xmas.
thanks very much for the help.