lan driver problem? :(

am using the desktop "emachines el1850" and i installed XP Pro Sp3 it works fine i know where to get all the drivers except there for win7 i installed the chipset (which worked) and i tried installing the lan driver manually through by updating through, for me am new to this idk what to do i get no connection even tho i got it installed it shows up "Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller" in the device manager it i do not know if thats what it soppose to show as it still has a yellow "!". when ever i open I.E it doesn't connect just gives me that "oage cannot be displayed" message and its making me mad idk how to fix this can anyone please help? or atleast give me the steps to install a win 7 lan driver for emachine el1850 manually and i might check if i did something wrong.

 

Hi and welcome to MG's,
Was your system originally supplied with Win 7 (64 bit), if so then I very much doubt that you will be able to get xp drivers to work for that board.

here is the drivers page for your machine......

http://support.gateway.com/us/en/emac/product/default.aspx?tab=1&modelId=2042

here is an xp version of that driver....

http://www.techpowerup.com/download...ontroller_Driver_v5738_for_XP_32bit64bit.html

download and save it to your desktop.... do not run it yet....uninstall the driver that you have installed then reboot your machine.... click out of any "found new hardware" and install the the driver from your desktop... hopefully this will resolve your issue.

iain.t :major

 

tyvm when i get on the other desktop i'll check it out right now am on the laptop ;I so ill post bak if they work and yes my system was a 64 but i reinstalled win7 to make a 32

 

worked perfectly thank you so much

 

Great

Thanks for the feed back, any more issues just create a new thread in the relevent forum and we will gladly try to assist again.

iain.t :major