Please HELP!!!

[Bankboy]

I built a new computer w/ an Abit mobo, 1200C, etc, etc...
I used a Linksys 10/100 card and had driver problems. When it "Found new hardware," it said it was a network adapter. Under the hardware profile, it reads it as a dial-up adapter! It wouldn't let me set up a network connection either due to this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

PS - I used the most recent drivers from the Linksys site.

THX.

 

[FatBurger]

What do you mean by "under the hardware profile"?

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[Bankboy]

Sorry, I meant like when you right click on "My computer", or even when you go to Network under Start-->Settings
-->Control Panel. For instance another card I installed (a very old 10M card) showed up as a network adapter and worked like a dream. The other card always shows up as a dial-up adapter. I would like to have 100M on my internal LAN. THX.

 

[ejsmith2]

Dial-up adapter? I'd say that was a-b-normal.

Well, chuck the driver (remove). Chuck the msft network, tcp/ip, and anything else you might have in the network config./protocol list. Restart.

Hit cancel on every one of the [expletitive deleted] windows that 'Windows' gives you. Don't 'install' anything, just hit cancel. Once you have windows up and running, install the drivers with the program. If there's no program, let windows search for your new hardware, and then point it to the drivers. restart when prompted.
Now, good ole' windows, should find 'new hardware' again. Point it to those drivers you have conviently put in a folder called 'C:\a' (that's what I do, anyway). Now reboot one more time.

What the point of all this is, windows doesn't like to overwrite files (drivers) that already exist, so by not having any 'hardware' in the first place, it will overwrite any drivers that might conflict. The second time around, windows will copy the exact same files (or at least try to), which doesn't hurt anything but makes windows like your new card.

It used to be 'road rage', but nowadays I feel mostly 'computer rage'........