ASUS MB . . .

[khushy]

built my new PC .. .

ASUS P5WD2-E Premium etc etc

Once windows XP has installed it hasnt seen the two GigaByte Lan controllers - what am I doing wrong???

Khushy

[Plotloss]

Go into device manager.

Do they appear with little yellow exclamation marks next to them?

If so, its a driver issue.

You have loaded the mobo driver disk I take it?

[ErnestM]

Also, make sure that the Gigabyte adapaters have been "turned on". In that particular board, go into the BIOS and make sure that they are active...

ErnestM

[chris watton]

Plotloss said:

Go into device manager.

Do they appear with little yellow exclamation marks next to them?

If so, its a driver issue.

You have loaded the mobo driver disk I take it?

That's right, if you insert the mobo support DD into the PC disk tray, go into device manager. When you see the yellow exclamation marks by some devices, just click 'update driver', and it should find the right one from the disk.

(I still have one of these yellow exclamation markes in my device manager, and for the life of me I don't know what the hell it is!)

[Plotloss]

chris watton said:

(I still have one of these yellow exclamation markes in my device manager, and for the life of me I don't know what the hell it is!)

Whats the device name its slinging up with the exclamation?

[khushy]

I want to update my BIOS how do I boot into DOS mode?

[Plotloss]

khushy said:

I want to update my BIOS how do I boot into DOS mode?

Theres no such thing as DOS mode in XP

Why do you want to update your BIOS?

Its almost certaintly not that thats stopping the NICs working...

[khushy]

just wanted to install the latest BIOS - anyway - I have . . .

1 - installed wxp pro
2 - installed ALL the driver software that came with the MB

there are still some yellow question marks . . .

and YES I have done the highlight them and update driver thingy!!!

1 - intel 83801G PCI express root port 27d0
2 - as above + 27d6
3 - and another one like the two above

and NO BLOODY NETWORK adapter except for the IEEEEE 1394 thingy

[chris watton]

Plotloss said:

chris watton said:

(I still have one of these yellow exclamation markes in my device manager, and for the life of me I don't know what the hell it is!)

Whats the device name its slinging up with the exclamation?

It simply says 'other devices' - 'unknown device'!
I have inserted my Creative X-FI soundcard CD, my GPU cd, and the mobo CD, even browsed to dorect it to any drivers I could find, but nothing seems to work! Very odd!

[chris watton]

khushy said:

just wanted to install the latest BIOS - anyway - I have . . .

1 - installed wxp pro
2 - installed ALL the driver software that came with the MB

there are still some yellow question marks . . .

and YES I have done the highlight them and update driver thingy!!!

1 - intel 83801G PCI express root port 27d0
2 - as above + 27d6
3 - and another one like the two above

and NO BLOODY NETWORK adapter except for the IEEEEE 1394 thingy

This sounds as though the settings in the BIOS options screen need changing - a lot of the mobo's 'features' are usually set to disabled by default.

[khushy]

but both the GB LAN settings in the BIOS say enabled - although there is a setting benneath that LAN ROM which is disabled!!!

[Plotloss]

Curious.

Nothing listed under Network Adapters?

They are turned on in the BIOS yes? (As Ernest suggests)

[Plotloss]

khushy said:

but both the GB LAN settings in the BIOS say enabled - although there is a setting benneath that LAN ROM which is disabled!!!

Change that to enabled and see what happens...

[Plotloss]

chris watton said:

Plotloss said:

chris watton said:

(I still have one of these yellow exclamation markes in my device manager, and for the life of me I don't know what the hell it is!)

Whats the device name its slinging up with the exclamation?

It simply says 'other devices' - 'unknown device'!
I have inserted my Creative X-FI soundcard CD, my GPU cd, and the mobo CD, even browsed to dorect it to any drivers I could find, but nothing seems to work! Very odd!

Ah the classic unknown device, cheers Bill!

Its either a secondary component on a card like a joystick/midi port or something on the mobo usually.

[khushy]

cheers

just done that and rebooting . . ..

[khushy]

when I plug the network cable in the MB it lights up - as it has done ever since this morning - but still no device found!!!

[khushy]

there also seem to be conflicts with available resources so I am going to discoonct the external 4 USB's and reboot

[khushy]

nothing

[chris watton]

Plotloss said:

chris watton said:

Plotloss said:

chris watton said:

(I still have one of these yellow exclamation markes in my device manager, and for the life of me I don't know what the hell it is!)

Whats the device name its slinging up with the exclamation?

It simply says 'other devices' - 'unknown device'!
I have inserted my Creative X-FI soundcard CD, my GPU cd, and the mobo CD, even browsed to dorect it to any drivers I could find, but nothing seems to work! Very odd!

Ah the classic unknown device, cheers Bill!

Its either a secondary component on a card like a joystick/midi port or something on the mobo usually.

LOL, yep, cheers for the huge amount of info on what's missing Bill!

Just tried any remaining driver CDs (Cyborg joystick, soundcard, again!, and my RA2 drivers), but still doesn't want to know! I hate that, don't like the exclamation marks, especially when I spent almost £2K on the damn thing! lol

[Plotloss]

Chris, try this: www.zhangduo.com/udi.html

Khushy have you expanded the entire device manager (hit * on the numeric keypad) to see if the NIC is listed under another section?