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Originally Posted by phildred
Hi everyone...well as the title says I tried Vista and wasn't too happy with it so i went back to XP and everything is working fine except I can't get online. I'm not sure what to get or where to get it. I checked in the device manager and saw I was missing drivers for 5 things: ethernet controller, pci device, pci modem, sm bus controller, and video controller. Do I need all these to get online?
Here is the information I got from Belarc:
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
2.10 gigahertz AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core BE-
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Board: Acer F690GVM
Bus Clock: 199 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD R02-B3 03/21/2008
1792 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A2' has 1024 MB
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 154.93 GB 134.69 GB free
h: (NTFS on drive 0) 154.66 GB 127.09 GB free
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200S [CD-ROM drive]
Generic USB CF Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Generic USB MS Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
Generic USB SD Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
Generic USB SM Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
Also just out of curiosity when I was using Vista my main drives were c and d but afterwards it's now c and h why is that and can I change it back? Thank you guys in advance for your help.
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Well the ethernet controller is what you need to get online. Does your computer not come with a driver's CD???
If you don't have that, open your PC and find out the model of the Network Interface Card. Once you got that, go to a PC with Internet connectivity and find the driver for the card, download it, transfer it onto a removable storage device and install it on the troubled PC.
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