[ellabbs]

hiya, ive reinstalled win xp on my machine and usually never have a problem, except now i do not have any LAN atall. in controll panel/network connections all i have is 1394 and no local area connection at all.

ive tried reinstalling and need some fresh brains to help me out here cos im kinda stuck, i could reinstall again but ill only end up with no lan connections again

i have a striker extreme board with onboard lan, this laptop is using the same modem and router as the comp that wont werk so internet connection is ok, its deffo the other pc..

hope someone can help

andy

[etaf]

did you re-install from a recover CD with all the drivers?
Are there any yellow ? in device manager at all

make and model of PC - you should be able to get the drivers off the manufacturers website -

[flavallee]

Andy:

A hard drive format and fresh install of XP doesn't always install the drivers for all the devices.

That's why it's good to have the device drivers burned off to a CD-R before you start.

In your case, the network adapter driver didn't get installed.

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Go into the Device Manager, as etaf advised, and see if any entries have a question mark or exclamation mark.

If there is a Other Devices or Unknown Devices heading, advise what's listed there.

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[ellabbs]

yeah, but ive reinstalled xp loadsa times before and only recently have i had this problem, ive tried to reinstall again, repair windows, and get the drivers from asus but all to no avail. if i put my original drive back in then it boots up to my old xp no probs with network conectivity.

im just trying another install with rj45 lead out ( you never know) lol

[ellabbs]

sorry.. its a self build pc with striker extreme motherboard 3 gig of ram 80 gig hdd (spare hdd)