[frederic_gilb]

hi i have a e-machine EL1200-6H that i am converting from Vista home to WHS and all is fine but the NVIDIA NForce Networking Controller and i tried to find the compatible drivers online and had no success. If you know more of the compatibility of the network adapter pls let me know if ther is a way to fix.

P.S. its a on board adapter

[frederic_gilb]

Here Are The Spec For a EL1200 series pc from e-machine!

Nvidia Geforce 6150 nForce 430 Powered by MOBOT ChipsetNvidia Geforce 6150 nForce 430 ManufacturerNvidia North BridgeNvidia 6150 SocketSocket 939 Processor TypesAthlon 64X2, Athlon 64FX, Athlon 64 Number of CPUs1 Front Side Bus1GHz HyperTransport Bus Link Memory TypeDDR Maximum Memory
Memory Channels
External GraphicsPCI Express x16 IGPNvidia Geforce 6150 South BridgeNvidia nForce 430 Audio6-channel IDE133/100/66/33 SCSINone SATA3.0 GB/s RAID0, 1, 0+1, 5 LAN10/100/1000 USBUSB 2.0 FirewireNone

[frederic_gilb]

I would need the compatible Driver for Windows Home Server for the NVIDIA NForce Networking Controller ain't I right?
If I'm correct its a windows Server 2003 drive!!!!!!!

[Soundy]

WHS is just a version of Windows Server 2003 with a bunch of add-on stuff for media sharing and whatnot. All you need is the appropriate W2K3S driver for your card... if there isn't one, then use the XP driver (since WS2K3 is based on XP).

[Soundy]

Oh, BTW... do yourself a favor and kack Norton Security, it'll really improve your performance. Wild Tangent should go too, it's borderline spyware (http://www.pchell.com/support/wildtangent.shtml)

[frederic_gilb]

But it wored for the SN BUS drivers needed.

Where do i find the appropriate W2K3S driver for your card... ? I spent two days searching and trying all kind of them with no success.

Thanks for the input just to let you know about all the software on there, Its gone i reinstalled fresh with WHS and thats y i'm having those issues!

Any more ideas??? Feel free because its my first time on a server any imput about WHS helps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Soundy]

Well, let's see.... I googled "e-machine EL1200-6H"...

The first hit was this thread... the second hit was the product info page on eMachines' website.

Clicked the "Customer Care" link...

Selected "Desktops", "EL-series", "EL-1200"...

Clicked "Driver Downloads"...

Found two listings that included network drivers:

EL1200_CHIPSET_NVIDIA_15.20.zip - NVIDIA Chipset Driver Version 15.20
Supports: Windows Vista (32-bit)
Note: This package contains includes: Ethernet Driver (v67.80) WHQL, Network Management Tools (v67.81) "Sedona", SATAIDE Driver (v10.3.0.33) WHQL, SATARAID Driver (v10.3.0.33) WHQL, RAIDTOOL Application (v10.3.0.33), SMU Driver (v1.45) WHQL, SMBus Driver (v4.64) WHQL, GPU Driver (v175.16) WHQL, Installer (v5.93),

-- and --

EL1200_CHIPSET_NVIDIA_15.15.zip - NVIDIA Chipset Driver Version 15.15
Supports: Windows XP
Note: This package includes the following drivers: Display Driver (v164.01) WHQL, Ethernet Driver (v67.76.1) WHQL, SATAIDE Driver (v10.3.0.21) WHQL, SATARAID Driver (v10.3.0.21) WHQL, RAIDTOOL Application (v10.3.0.21), SMU Driver (v1.45) WHQL, SMBus Driver (v4.64) WHQL, Installer (v5.84)

That second one should be the one you need - again, Windows Server 2003 is built on the XP core, so the XP driver *should* work.