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Ethernet NIC works in 7 not xp on same laptop
Boggin:
Your post reminded me of something else to try, Shane - Duplex settings.
Right click on the LAN adapter in Device Manager and select Properties.
Under the Advanced tab click on Speed & Duplex and try the 1000Mbps Full and Half Duplex if set to Auto Negotiation.
You could also try the 100Mbps settings even though you have a Gigabit chip fitted and if your router doesn't support Gigabit speeds.
Shane, the 2nd post confirms the XP driver download.
sfeinbe:
Shane: what you describe is very close to my situation, almost identical. HP doesn't have drivers for XP on this computer. I've had to look all over for device drivers. Some were provided by Microsoft during an update. I can't even remember now where I got the drivers for the NIC, but I'm fairly certain it was from the link given in Boggin's first post. As for the audio, I've tried so many drivers I can't count them anymore, including one from Microsoft included in an update. None have worked.
My next steps will probably be Boggin's. Or I may just restore the partition to a much earlier (just a few days ago) state and see what happens if I try to install the audio and NIC. Since I have all the drivers for everything else (even though it was VERY difficult to install some of them), I could restore all the other devices easier than trying to fix these two.
A word of caution: if anyone else wants to do the same for this laptop beware of any site claiming to have a collection of drivers for XP that work for this computer. They lie. One or two *may* work. Most won't. Worse, most are just trying to get you to download their driver software or install garbage-ware onto your computer during the install process. I avoided all the attempted garbage-ware installs, but only just.
I'll be back with an update later.
Shane:
It is this reason why I made my hardware identify program.
http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/tweaking_com_hardware_identify.html
I would get windows 8 machines that a customer wants windows 7 put on. I go to get the drivers and of course they dont list ANY windows 7 drivers or older. BUT all the mfg hardware is still the same as the newer models. I just needed a way to find them and match them up. So i made this program.
It can at least show you any other names the network card id shows and that could help you trace some down. If you can get me the laptop make and model and get me the hardware IDs from my program for the nic and sound then I can use those to find a older model HP that had that same hardware and has the proper xp drivers listed :-)
In cases like this the trick is to find a different HP model with the same hardware. :wink:
Shane
Boggin:
That's a handy program Shane, I would normally have to go into the Properties/Details/Hardware Ids or msinfo32 for the VEN & DEV Nos.
Shane:
So would I, and I got annoyed with it, so I wrote something lol
And since I made it easy for users to submit their hardware to me the database int he program gets updated every week :-)
Shane
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