Last month I bought the first PC I haven't built myself since I started building them in 1985 and it's not worked out as well as I had hoped.
The computer is a Lenovo K230 (5359 4PU). It has an Intel motherboard with the following chipset, according to the specs on their website.
Intel G33 Express Chipset (PCI Express® x16), I/O Controller Hub 9 Digital
Home [ICH9DH] (SATA 3.0Gb/s, PCI Express x1, ethernet MAC, PCI 2.3, USB,
LPC bus), SMSC® SCH5617 Super I/O
The onboard LAN is described as: Gigabit ethernet on planar, Intel 82256GC
The Wireless card is described as: 11b/g wireless4, Broadcom® BCM4312, PCIe x1 adapter
I've partitioned the drive to multi-boot Vista Home Premium 64-bit (as shipped), Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, and Win XP Pro SP3.
Here's the kicker. I hoped to get everything set up for Windows 7, but now that it no longer supports the NetBEUI protocol I'm unable to print to our parallel port LaserJet 6P using our Netgear PS110 printer server (requires NetBEUI protocol). I've tried the TCP/IP-only/ LPR port workaround, but so far no success.
So this is why I installed WinXP - as a fallback in the event that I couldn't get something vital to work properly in Win7.
But now the problem is that I can't get any of the networking hardware (onboard LAN or Wireless PCIe) to work in WinXP at all. I've tried every driver (there has to be over 100!) included with SP3 and not a single one of them will install. And Lenovo doesn't have any WinXP drivers to support this PC anywhere that I can find on their site.
Does anybody know how I could get this networking hardware to work with WinXP? Is it possible that this main board is so proprietary that there aren't even any drivers that'll work with it for WinXP?
Finally, if anyone knows how I can use our HP LaserJet (just put a brand new toner cartridge in it, too) in Win7 without having to share it from a PC I'd love to get in on it.
Thank you!
Tim
The computer is a Lenovo K230 (5359 4PU). It has an Intel motherboard with the following chipset, according to the specs on their website.
Intel G33 Express Chipset (PCI Express® x16), I/O Controller Hub 9 Digital
Home [ICH9DH] (SATA 3.0Gb/s, PCI Express x1, ethernet MAC, PCI 2.3, USB,
LPC bus), SMSC® SCH5617 Super I/O
The onboard LAN is described as: Gigabit ethernet on planar, Intel 82256GC
The Wireless card is described as: 11b/g wireless4, Broadcom® BCM4312, PCIe x1 adapter
I've partitioned the drive to multi-boot Vista Home Premium 64-bit (as shipped), Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, and Win XP Pro SP3.
Here's the kicker. I hoped to get everything set up for Windows 7, but now that it no longer supports the NetBEUI protocol I'm unable to print to our parallel port LaserJet 6P using our Netgear PS110 printer server (requires NetBEUI protocol). I've tried the TCP/IP-only/ LPR port workaround, but so far no success.
So this is why I installed WinXP - as a fallback in the event that I couldn't get something vital to work properly in Win7.
But now the problem is that I can't get any of the networking hardware (onboard LAN or Wireless PCIe) to work in WinXP at all. I've tried every driver (there has to be over 100!) included with SP3 and not a single one of them will install. And Lenovo doesn't have any WinXP drivers to support this PC anywhere that I can find on their site.
Does anybody know how I could get this networking hardware to work with WinXP? Is it possible that this main board is so proprietary that there aren't even any drivers that'll work with it for WinXP?
Finally, if anyone knows how I can use our HP LaserJet (just put a brand new toner cartridge in it, too) in Win7 without having to share it from a PC I'd love to get in on it.
Thank you!
Tim