Onboard NIC doesn't work

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The motherboard in one of my computers died. There was a lot of info on the HD that I wanted to save and it was bootable, so I disconnected the HD in my game computer, installed it and it booted up fine. The problem however is that the NIC on the motherboard won't work with this other drive. I swaped the previous HD back in and it worked so it's not the motherboard. Is there some software that I can load on this old HD that will activate the NIC? Both HD run Win XP.
 
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Hello All,
Thanks for all the helpful advice. Here's what I ended up doing which worked! I reconnected the original HD which worked, looked at the device manager (which appeared unlike the other one) and found out that although the motherboard was an Asus, the onboard NIC was made by NvIdia. So I went to the Nvidia website on another computer, downloaded the network driver suite for WIN XP and transfered it to a thumbdrive. Then switching the HD (the one that showed no NIC) back in the other computer, downloading the Nvidia software from the thumbdrive and voila (!), after a system restart, EVERYTHING WORKED!
 
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