Are you able to remove the card from your PC?
and read the model on it?
Are you able to find your motherboard/computer model?
use the motherboard/computer model to find what model of card is on it.
Once you have the nic model search for a driver.
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if u have another way to contact dells website with eather a flash usb or a cd get the drivers from dell for you nic then go start/control/system/device manager and update your drivers for that nic
There should not be any problem with you buying your own PCI ethernet card and install it yourself. They are not that expensive. www.newegg.com has on for only $7.99 and it will work fine in your computer. It does not need to be from Dell.
NICs usually come in PCI interfaces. motherboards have usually four PCI slots to hold many devices such as NIC. just slide the card and fit it into the PCI slot. It could take any of the slots where it fits. the OS will detect it and loads the necessary drivers.
The solution proposed by user 'Solutions58' seems to be about windows box since he is talking about 'Device Manager' RHEL4 or 5 detect compatible NIC cards during boot up process automatically. Sometimes NIC may be detected but may not work properly due to lack of proper driver (a.k.a Module - in Linux culture). Do this - 1. First find out from HP's web site if NIC for your model has Linux support. You can also use Google to find appropriate driver for your NIC. If yes then you need to follow instructions that are provided in the INSATLL file that comes bundled with the driver. 2. Otherwise buy a $10 NIC card which has Linux support. Disable your onboard NIC through your computer's BIOS and boot it. Linux should detect your NIC right away. 3. Following command can help you in your quest As root # dmesg | grep eth (Will show your detected NIC) # service network status (Will also show configured & active devices) # ifconfig -a (Will also show your network devices and related info) # system-config-network (will let you configure your NIC via GUI) (This would be your best choice) # system-config-newtowk-tui (Will give you a text base interface to configure your NIC)
Did you try uninstalling the nic card driver and have Windows redetect it? You can right click on the hidden device and click Uninstall. You could also try installing the latest driver for your nic card.
Do you have any 2.4MHz cordless phones in the house or is the computer near a microwave? those two items can cause interference. You can go to Dell.com, go to support then download drivers/software, enter in your service tag is best if you know it? find the network card driver and download it. You can find out which NIC card you have by going to my computer, system, then device manager and right click on the NIC, then properties, it will tell you what card you have.
Check for the pins inside the integrated NIC to check if the pins are bent / disfigured. Does not look like the additional card is making any different, looks more like a moving NIC cable is makin the difference.
if your system is still within warranty I would think twice about opening the case yourself to installing a new network card.. you will be voiding your warranty.. so think about it
another thing i would try before deciding on going for another network card is to check your onboard network adapter has updated drivers... or you may want to reinstall the drivers for that adapter.. either one of those may probably fix your issue assuming is not a hardware failing given that your system may not be that old.... make sure you check the windows update and look for any new hardware driver for your network adapter that may be avaliable through windows update.
before you install your new network pci card you may have/want to disable the one on board going into your bios for that. so to ensure there's no resource conflicts when installing the driver for your new card (it may not be a problem even if you don't but if you run into problems while installing the new card consider this suggestion)
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