My pci express network card can't be read?!?

[josephtito19942]

I have a motherboard intel DG41RQ and it has a built in lan card but i wanted to put another lan card via the PCI express slot and i put it and the flash lights on the network card are flashing but still the hardware manager and everything on the computer haven't even noticed that i put a new hardware, and that is really driving me mad. any help plz

 

[RealBeast]

Did you install the driver for the PCIe card yet? Once you do it manually, since it wasn't PnP recognized, the machine should recognize it and work fine.

 

[josephtito19942]

I am sorry to say that but i don't know which driver should i get to it and i tried the driver detective but i don't have a crack or anything he detected the prob but i am stuck with the registration.

 

[RealBeast]

Never use anything like Driver Detective they will just screw everything up, figure out what card you have and just download the proper driver from the manufacturer website. What card do you have?

And don't expect devices to work unless you install drivers.

 

[josephtito19942]

I have a network card D-link, but some hardware work with the auto driver install of the windows 7, the prob is that i cant even see the card in the device manager.

 

[josephtito19942]

And also i got this one: LAN Card with Realtek/IC+ singleNIC8139D Chipset (HY-8139D) http://www.made-in-china.com/showroom/hykj88/product-detailuejmpnbcHgkq/China-LAN-Card-with-Realtek-IC-singleNIC8139D-Chipset-HY-8139D-.html

 

[RealBeast]

Is either or both actually installed in the computer? If so, remove both, read the model on the DLink, then reinstall it alone. List the DLink model here.

 

[josephtito19942]

Look i found a lot of numbers on the card but the number on the chipset was DL10028A.

 

[RealBeast]

AFAIK the actual model number for that card would be DFE-520TX -- what OS are you running?

Looks like driverguide has a compatible driver available: http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=577761

 

[josephtito19942]

I am running windows 7 64 bit will this driver work?

 

[RealBeast]

Possibly, you would have to install them in compatibility mode -- i.e. download the driver and then right click on it, compatibility tab, and select Win XP SP2 as the mode. It's worth a try, I have about 80% success with that on my 64 bit Win 7 installs and old drivers.

 

[josephtito19942]

OK then i will re-install the card nw and try the driver and i will tell u the news and thx very much for ur help.

 

[RealBeast]

NM -- the second is onboard. Good luck!

 

[josephtito19942]

Now i have anther big prob, i am posting this from my laptop my desktop doesnt want to start up at all after i reinstalled the card i tried to open it and i got no response not even the beep of the motherboard and only a black screen with the led flash of the screen like it's on standbye, so i tried to remove the ram and start the pc without it, so the motherboard gave me 3 beep, i reinstalled them and also nothing i even tried to remove the vga card also i got nothing plz help me i am so woried about that.

 

[RealBeast]

You cannot start a computer without ram and graphics so put them back and insure that everything is properly seated and connected, including any power needed to the graphic card. Uninstall the network card and try restarting the computer.

 

[josephtito19942]

I tried all that and still nothing only the fans are working :S

 

[RealBeast]

Something must have come loose when you were working on the PCIe card, so methodically go through and check all connections and re-seat all cards and memory.

Three beeps on that board is a memory error: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-010249.htm

 

[josephtito19942]

I know that the three beeps were because that i removed the memory but now all is back and i cleaned all the cards and reseated them and still nothing not even a single beep is coming up.

 

[RealBeast]

Check everything and reseat the memory.

 

[The_Prophecy]

The fact that the system is complaining about a lack of ram when you removed all of the ram sticks is at least a good sign. As has already been mentioned, you probably just inadvertently bumped another device (most likely the video card) when you reinstalled your add-in network card. Remove and reseat all of the expansion cards you have in that computer and power the system back on. I doubt anything has been damaged permanently at this point.

 

[josephtito19942]

I did all that and i removed all the cards and cleaned them and i am sure they are seated good but still nothing and also i reset the bios by the jumper and still nothing and the weird thing is that when i push the restart button the computer turn off only and dont restart! I really dunno wt's wrong :S

 

[RealBeast]

Did you put the bios clear jumper back to the default position? Or remove the ATX12V power connector, or GPU power connector (if the card needs one)?

I don't think that anything is wrong with your computer, just something not connected properly, since there were no issues before you removed the PCIe card.

 

[josephtito19942]

I checked everything more than 5 times and nothing works.

 

[RealBeast]

You must be missing something, take a break and then carefully go over everything again.

 

[josephtito19942]

I retried now and still nothing i am starting to worry about the motherboard and btw HDD led doesnt flash at all not even once while the pc starts up.