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bjsteen   03-11-2009 at 08:55:58 AM

I have two hard drives in my computer, one has xp and the other has vista. My vista drive has internet connection and I can surf the net, but when I access the xp drive it doesn't detect my adapter. I looked in network places and it shows my adapter as connected and firewalled but it won't connect at all! I put in my ISP's cd to install their software and it won't proceed, it says no network card detected. Why?

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badge   03-11-2009 at 09:04:56 AM
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Vista may have a driver that works if you have not installed a Vista driver for the network card. You may have to install an XP driver for the network card. XP may not have a preinstalled driver available like Vista does.

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bjsteen   03-14-2009 at 07:09:36 AM
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badge wrote :

Vista may have a driver that works if you have not installed a Vista driver for the network card. You may have to install an XP driver for the network card. XP may not have a preinstalled driver available like Vista does.



Thanks for the lead! I installed nvidia nforce xp drivers and it worked perfectly! Thanks badge.

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r_manic   05-04-2009 at 04:02:42 AM
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Can we rename this thread, two hard disks, one OS? :P

Just a quick clarification: Newer versions of OSes usually have more drivers that come with it (not "preinstalled" mind you, but available).

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