A friend just installed windows 2000 pro on her computer and now can't get back on-line, something about a net work card? Any suggestions?
A friend just installed windows 2000 pro on her computer and now can't get back on-line, something about a net work card? Any suggestions?
What brand of computer did she install it on, or what type of motherboard does she have?
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Sure.... she would need to install the Windows 2000 drivers for that network card - then it should work fine..
Yup - you would..... However, it's more probable that the network card is integrated on the motherboard which means you'd either need to:
A: Look up the system model number on the OEM's website (e.g. Dell, Compaq, HP etc) - go to their support page for that particular PC and get the network drivers.
or
B: If it's not a system from a major OEM, go to the company's website who made the motherboard and go to the driver support page for that board and snag the networking drivers.
-Cp beat me to it, excellent advice!
Tell your friend to dump 2000 and go to XP!
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Yeah, XP does a better job of auto-detecting the hardware and comes with a better assortment of drivers out of the box.
But if she's stuck with Win2K, just let us know either the make and model of her computer, or the make/model of her motherboard and we should be able to get her going.
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How does a network card have anything to do with getting on-line? Unless you're running a LAN to start with.
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Cable, DSL and wireless modems typically provide an ethernet connection to facilitate connecting them to a router to distribute the connection. While USB connections are also available on many models of these modems, they are becoming less prevalent in the marketplace as just about everyone runs a network these days.
Oh yeah, some internal modem cards present themselves as a network interface card under Windows detection, despite the fact you and I would probably refer to them as modem cards. (Dial-up modems are the exception here, although they get treated as a special class of network interface card by the Windows OS,)
OK, I've had my geeky moment. Time to check the brats on the grill....
“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face” - Thomas Sowell
“What "multiculturalism" boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture” - Thomas Sowell
Exactamundo! That was my line of thinking.
Either you have a modem with a MAC address, and you get assigned an IP address when you dial in, or you have a network card attached to your cable/dsl modem that has a MAC address and gets assigned an IP address. NO IP, no connecty!
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what is the exact error she is getting? Is there a Local Area Connection icon in her Network Connections? If so what are the settings under its properties?
A quick way to see if she is pulling a valid IP is to do a Start > Run, type in cmd and hit OK. Should pop open a command line window. Type in ipconfig/all , this will show your domain, ip address, dns ect. If the ip address is 0.0.0.0 or a 169.xx.xx.xx then she has no network connection and will need to check the NIC settings.
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I know, I just didn’t see enough information to give advice.. All we have is she 'now' can't connect after installing win 2000pro, upgrade? Is she on a LAN or not? Was everything fine beforehand? Lots of questions to answer before I’d say card or drivers. I mean if she went from win2000 to pro all the drivers would still be there. I would think all settings would also remain, although I've never heard much good about 2000 at all. I'd have to ask; WTF were you thinking when you installed Win 2000?!! I wouldn't be a popular repair person.
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She has a samsung thinkmaster 955ds. That's second hand info from her daughter, I hope she got it right.