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Network Cards arn't installing!
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Posted by: ssynesthesia

I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro motherboard, AMD -64 processor. I have WIN XP PRO x64 installed on my computer. I actually just reformatted and installed win xp pro x64 again. I am having problems installing any network cards.

I have tried to install 2 different cards of each: Linksys Wireless G-card pci edition and NetGear FA311 10/100 MBPS PCI ETHERNET NETWORK CARD. Both are not working. I tried to install the drivers for each and it doesnt help. I have rebooted with the linksys installation cd in and tried to install the drivers from the disk. The device manager shows that I have a unknown Ethernet controller and a unknown Network Controller. I have reinstalled the chipsets and everything I can install for the motherboard in hopes to maybe fix a potential PCI driver problem. But the PCI slots work for my video card which is a PCI card. This only doesn't work for the networking cards I am using. I have even switched them around and still the video card works but the networking cards don't, the linksys installation tells me to turn the computer off and plug the linksys in the pci slot, even though it is already in there, so it must not recognize it. I am still getting the problem after completely updating the motherboard drivers. I have put the driver sets on the computer for both of the different kinds of networking cards (the linksys and NetGear) and windows doesn't recognize them as being the correct drivers so doesn't install them. I have also tried to install them directly using the "choose a driver to install" option and chose the driver and still, it didn't work.

What can I do now?? I am at my wits end!

Posted by: Lorithad

You sure you're using the 64-bit versions of the drivers? Fairly common mistake. You seem to have done everything else that I could reccomend..