No ethernet detected

Ok.. don't know if i couldn't find the answer because i didn't search with the right words but..

we have a home built computer at my work. the guy who built it got fired. we reformatted it because he put in a whole bunch of unnecessary stuff that slowed it down a bunch. now it won't detect the ethernet that comes with the board. doesn't even show up in the device manager. don't know if its just a lan issue, or the motherboard issue.

motherboard is a ecs nforce3-a

i tried downloading the lan driver from the ecs website. didn't do anything. unless i installed it wrong.

anyone know what's up?

The first question I have would be.. have you looked in the Device manager in Windows to see if the network adapter is actually installed and working properly? If its a custom built PC.. and you formatted the machine it could just be a simple driver issue.

Check your Device Manager under network adapters and see if anything shows up in there.. and that its not disabled.

fixed it. found a set of ide drivers on the ecs website. reason i couldn't find it is because originally i searched by the motherboard type, then went into the drivers category. this time i went to downloads then searched for the motherboard. don't know why the same files aren't in both places but oh well.