Network Adapter Hardware Missing

[Guest]

Ok guys come across an issue on a friends laptop. He said he installed some software and it removed his network adapter hardware. Im unsure as to get it back ive been on intel website before and searched for it there but couldnt find much.This is an oldlaptop aswell. Heres the specs

Intel Core i3-2310m cpu 2.1ghz
64bit operating system on windows 7 ultimate.

Basicly when i troubleshoot network connections nothing comes up. If i remotely try to connect to my wifi it says "network adapter hardware missing"

Hopefuly someone can help me out here.
Thanks guys
wayne

 

[HopelessNoob]

Ok guys come across an issue on a friends laptop. He said he installed some software and it removed his network adapter hardware. Im unsure as to get it back ive been on intel website before and searched for it there but couldnt find much.This is an oldlaptop aswell. Heres the specs

Intel Core i3-2310m cpu 2.1ghz
64bit operating system on windows 7 ultimate.

Basicly when i troubleshoot network connections nothing comes up. If i remotely try to connect to my wifi it says "network adapter hardware missing"

Hopefuly someone can help me out here.
Thanks guys
wayne

did you try looking for it in device manager?

 

[Guest]

Ok guys come across an issue on a friends laptop. He said he installed some software and it removed his network adapter hardware. Im unsure as to get it back ive been on intel website before and searched for it there but couldnt find much.This is an oldlaptop aswell. Heres the specs

Intel Core i3-2310m cpu 2.1ghz
64bit operating system on windows 7 ultimate.

Basicly when i troubleshoot network connections nothing comes up. If i remotely try to connect to my wifi it says "network adapter hardware missing"

Hopefuly someone can help me out here.
Thanks guys
wayne

did you try looking for it in device manager?

Currently in the device manage section now under other devices. Ethernet controller,network controller,pci controller ,sm bus controller, all coming up with the Yellow Trianlge and "!" mark

 

[HopelessNoob]

Ok guys come across an issue on a friends laptop. He said he installed some software and it removed his network adapter hardware. Im unsure as to get it back ive been on intel website before and searched for it there but couldnt find much.This is an oldlaptop aswell. Heres the specs

Intel Core i3-2310m cpu 2.1ghz
64bit operating system on windows 7 ultimate.

Basicly when i troubleshoot network connections nothing comes up. If i remotely try to connect to my wifi it says "network adapter hardware missing"

Hopefuly someone can help me out here.
Thanks guys
wayne

did you try looking for it in device manager?

Currently in the device manage section now under other devices. Ethernet controller,network controller,pci controller ,sm bus controller, all coming up with the Yellow Trianlge and "!" mark

uninstall all of them then rescan

 

[Guest]

Ive managed to resolve the issue. Like a noobie i didnt think to check the model number with the serial on the ASUS website and found the WLAN Driver there

 

[HopelessNoob]

Ive managed to resolve the issue. Like a noobie i didnt think to check the model number with the serial on the ASUS website and found the WLAN Driver there

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