windows 7 did not instal drivers for internet adapter

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kanewolf

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Sure, if the internet adapter in question was not part of the motherboard. A USB WIFI adapter for instance. Base ethernet adapter on the motherboard is generally included in the driver disk with the motherboard.
 
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You are wrong. If, for instance, the chipset on a board is Intel, and the NIC is Realtek, the NIC driver wouldn't be included in the chipset drivers.
 
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windows 7 is old, some of the newer motherboard have new network chips that don't have a .inf file in the old windows 7 product. my new motherboard network chip was not even in the windows 8 install, I had to run them from a USB thumbdrive to get the network up.

-use another machine and download the drivers to a USB thumb drive and install them.
- install them from the CD that came with your hardware, then update them after the network starts working.
I guess you should confirm the hardware is not disabled in the BIOS, and your network cables are setup correctly
 
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