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Windows 7 Woes

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  • 17-01-2010 11:23pm
    #1
    shiner1
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭


    Hi All.
    I'm looking for some help on my Windows 7 install.
    Everything went fine except for the "Ethernet Controller".......which has stopped working....


    My Pc is as follows.....(don't laugh it's served me well)
    Mobo: MSI K8N Neo Platinum
    Processor: AMD64
    Ram: 2Gig.
    HDD: 3 Sata, 3 Pata.
    and so on.


    I cannot get online without it (i think) and the drivers are not available (or I'm blind and can't find them).....
    Should I just go back to XP?
    Should I do a complete upgrade of mobo and cpu?


    Any help would be great...thanks..


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    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Why are there no drivers? Haven't you checked MSIs website?


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    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,819 ✭✭✭phill106


    Or have you tried the vista drivers? They should work.


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    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    And FYI the vista drivers will work in windows 7 too. Now dont go blaming the OS if there are no drivers for the hardware, thats just silly !


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    majiktripp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    MSI Drivers page for Neo Platinum


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    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users Posts: 8,022 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    Check in the device manager as well to find out which aspects of the your hardware you need to install drivers for.


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    shiner1
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭shiner1


    Solitaire wrote: »
    Why are there no drivers? Haven't you checked MSIs website?

    Yup, tried and no good, win 7 drivers not available yet.....


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    shiner1
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭shiner1


    youcancallme>al wrote: »
    Check in the device manager as well to find out which aspects of the your hardware you need to install drivers for.


    Device Manager shows 1 unknown device, Ethernet Controller, device will not start, no drivers available.

    got me stumped...


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    shiner1
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭shiner1


    Anti wrote: »
    And FYI the vista drivers will work in windows 7 too. Now dont go blaming the OS if there are no drivers for the hardware, thats just silly !



    Sorry for sounding like an idiot but can you see any vista drivers for my mobo...... only ones on the MSI site are for XP and 2K.....


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    Mister Man
    Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Mister Man


    shiner1 wrote: »
    Sorry for sounding like an idiot but can you see any vista drivers for my mobo...... only ones on the MSI site are for XP and 2K.....
    Have you tryed the XP Drivers, my Belkin wireless USB Thing runs from XP Drivers on Windows 7 as far as i know...


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    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    shiner1 wrote: »
    Sorry for sounding like an idiot but can you see any vista drivers for my mobo...... only ones on the MSI site are for XP and 2K.....


    Msi are known for this, just download the winxp ones and right click and install as administrator. If that fails run it in compatibility mode for win xp.


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    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    I doubt it helps that it's a S754 mobo with an ancient nForce3 chipset... don't know if nVidia ever published Vista drivers for them, they're crap at legacy support. The problem may not even be MSI... :o


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    shiner1
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭shiner1


    Solitaire wrote: »
    I doubt it helps that it's a S754 mobo with an ancient nForce3 chipset... don't know if nVidia ever published Vista drivers for them, they're crap at legacy support. The problem may not even be MSI... :o

    That's all I keep reading online.....

    begining to think upgrade is the only way.....


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    Mister Man
    Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Mister Man


    shiner1 wrote: »
    That's all I keep reading online.....

    begining to think upgrade is the only way.....



    Theres a decent MSI MoBo on komplett (and all other sites) for something like 39 quid, AM2+. You sould check it out as a cheap upgrade, as far as i know the cheapest MoBo for AMD processor's (correct me if im wrong)


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    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,995 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    They only ever released beta drivers for Vista.

    you could give them a go though.


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    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Surely there's a generic driver that would work? I can't remember ever installing ethernet drivers even in XP they all just worked.


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    Spacedog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭Spacedog


    as suggested, try xp drivers in xp mode, or beta vista drivers.

    if all else fails buy this or ask a techie friend who is bound to have one at the bottom of a box somewhere.


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