XP won't recognize new NIC card

[Guest]

I have an older Gateway that originally came with Windows ME. I upgraded a
couple of years ago to XP home and shortly thereafter bought high speed
internet service through Comcast (cable). When I ordered Comcast the tech
couldn't make an ethernet connection to the router, so he gave me a USB
connection instead. This has worked fine, but now I want to set up a
wireless router and to do so, I need an ethernet connection. I assumed the
old NIC card must be bad, so I just bought a new card (Dynex) and installed
it. However, XP does not recognize the new card. It doesn't pull up the
wizard, and the card doesn't show up in Device manager. I have tried it in
different slots and that also didn't work. I also updated the chipset
drivers on Intel's website as the Gateway folks thought this may be the
problem - this did not work either.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

 

[Maincat]

I have an older Gateway that originally came with Windows ME. I upgraded a
couple of years ago to XP home and shortly thereafter bought high speed
internet service through Comcast (cable). When I ordered Comcast the tech
couldn't make an ethernet connection to the router, so he gave me a USB
connection instead. This has worked fine, but now I want to set up a
wireless router and to do so, I need an ethernet connection. I assumed
the
old NIC card must be bad, so I just bought a new card (Dynex) and
installed
it. However, XP does not recognize the new card. It doesn't pull up the
wizard, and the card doesn't show up in Device manager. I have tried it
in
different slots and that also didn't work. I also updated the chipset
drivers on Intel's website as the Gateway folks thought this may be the
problem - this did not work either.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

Did you get a driver disk with your new NIC? If so, use that, or go to the
NIC maker's website to download the driver.
Load the driver, then install the NIC.

 

[Patt]

Did you get a driver disk with your new NIC? If so, use that, or go to
the NIC maker's website to download the driver.
Load the driver, then install the NIC.

Well not always the rule. My nic card instructions said to install the card
first, and then to load the driver. This was especially for xp pro.

 

[Maincat]

Well not always the rule. My nic card instructions said to install the
card first, and then to load the driver. This was especially for xp pro.

Agreed not cast in stone, but pretty much the rule for PnP cards. Follow
the manufacturer's instructions.