ok I just formatted my cousins DELL pc, she moved house so got a new modem, I tried to install it but it says no ethernet card found.
she said she use to have the net on that computer before and she had a modem,
when I go to add hardware ethernet shows up but says cant install
2007-10-21 09:31:44 · 11 answers · asked by April 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
You need to download the driver for the ethernet card from the Dell website. I expect there are other drivers that need installing too if you have just done a fresh installation.
2007-10-21 09:36:52 · answer #1 · answered by Rolsy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It may just need the ethernet drivers installing again, go to dells website and you should find them then try it. Does the pc have a ethernet port as she may have been using usb before and the new modem may not have usb. Either way you may need a ethernet card, about £10 for a pci one.
2007-10-21 09:38:27 · answer #2 · answered by h1ten 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has it spot on, re driver
Try also getting some software like "DRIVER MAGIC" which will scan a PC for hardware with missing or outdated drivers, and download the correct ones.
Also, most older cable and ADSL modems can be connected via USB, though ethernet is better.
2007-10-21 09:41:44 · answer #3 · answered by Phil McCracken 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
first, for broadband we don't use a modem, we use a router that is given to the customer by the supplier( BT, Talk talk, sky,...).
After this try again, if the problem goes on , I recomend to buy a ethernet card, is cheap (check on ebay).
Is easy to install the card , open the computer and were is a white slot (PCI) just put it slowly, and is ready to go. Don't forget to turn off the computer before open the computer.
2007-10-22 02:18:34 · answer #4 · answered by darouga 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After formatting, you MUST re-install all the drivers for the hardware. You should have disks for all of these, or they may have been on a folder or second partition on the machine. If you have wiped this, you have big problems. Contact Dell for a replacement driver set.
2007-10-21 11:34:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the driver, i suggest doing what all the nice people here say.. use a friends pc to go online to search for the driver.
if your unsure what driver you need there should be a model or serial number on the ethernet card then jot it down go to friends house and search like that,or you may even try to google the serial/model number too cause that helped me once too.. whatever the case may be u will need to download the driver onto a cd or dvd or flashdrive and transfer it to her pc....
anyway good luck and i hope you can it going again.
2007-10-21 10:00:32 · answer #6 · answered by WillyBob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
easily, it's going to be close. wide-spread Ethernet throughput is approximately 0.5 of the port velocity at maximum, and that's decrease than perfect situations. Assuming that the gateway that they installation could have a gigabit Ethernet interface on it, you would be certain of having each and every of the obtainable bandwidth with a gigabit Ethernet card on your pc to boot. That stated, the percentages of having an entire 50 mbps of usable bandwidth are extremely slender, extraordinarily from a single web site or host on the cyber web. maximum web pages shrink the bandwidth in line with connection and shrink the form of sessions to a single host and those limits tend to be decrease than 50 mbps. At my final job we had a a million gigabit backbone connection to the information superhighway. We downloaded a large number of application from Microsoft interior the direction of doing our artwork and the utmost mixture bandwidth I ever observed between the Microsoft acquire servers and our gateway grew to become into approximately 20 mbps.
2016-10-07 08:34:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People 'reformatting' their PCs has to be one of the biggest support nightmares.
Did you restore the system from the recovery disc that came with that PC? I suppect not.
You will need to source and intall the drivers for any hardware that is not fully functioning.
You can download these to a different PC, and put them on a USB stick or CD to transfer to this PC.
There are very few occasions where it is necessary to reformat a drive, or re-install an operating system, but every day I read questions on YA from people who have done it. Why do people feel they need to do this?
Rule no1, If you don't KNOW what you are doing, DON'T DO IT, seek professional assistance.
2007-10-21 09:52:28 · answer #8 · answered by David P 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
try going to the DELL website and get the correct driver for it. and if you ever re-formate use the recovery cd's it has all the driver in it.
2007-10-21 09:39:39 · answer #9 · answered by Lilbrian15 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You need a driver for it.
2007-10-21 09:37:25 · answer #10 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋