i am working on a compaq presario s4020wm pc for a friend of mine, replaced hard drive and restored windowsxp home edition via restore disk, pc boots up fine works as it should only issue i'm having is the onboard network adapter is not apearing in the device manager.now in the device manager if you hit view/show hidden devices at network adapter does appear there and is supposedly working properly, but it seems to me that the wrong device driver has been loaded what i'm really looking for i belive is the appropriate driver for the network card and i can't locate itthe network adapter that it show is as followsnetwork adapters:direct parralel, microsoft tun miniport adapter, wan miniport(ip), wan miniport(ip)-packet sheduler miniport wan miniport(l2tp), wan miniport(pppoe) wan miniport(pptp) i have been to the hp/compaq site and have not found it i have also been to the motherboard manufacturer site (mobo is a "FIC am35") as per everesti installed service pack 3 from a flash drive, not to fix the problem but to get the pc closer to the condition that i wanna return it in i feel if i can find the appropriate driver for the network adapter it should be resolved any help finding it will be greatly aprecciatedpc is a :compaq presario s4020wm stock components except the new hard driveos is :xp home premium sp3mobo :FIC am35 network adapter is integrated and i found no labeling on itI'm stump no idea what to do any help would be awsome

HiAFAIK it is "Ethernet 10/100 LAN Realtek RTL8100L".http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=6&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false Jack-MVP Windows Networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET

i have been messing with this thing for hours now i got the driver installer from above link it installs, and i rebbot but it doesnt workno idea what i'm doing wrong still cannot "load the driver" because the realtek adapter never appears in add new hardware wizard as well as not apearing in the device manager i dont know what information i can provide or even what question to ask at this pointi guess the best thing to do would be to make sure i'm downloading the right file and what shold i be doing with it after i download itthank you for your patience i may need to borrow some...

Code 10: The device cannot start.its loaded and now appears in device manager with yellow ! still isnt working obviously whats the next step in troble shooting this thing beggining to think the adapter is bad

HiDownload the drivers and unpack them to a folder of your choice.In the Device manger, right click on the adapter.Click on Update Drivers, and choose the Browse my computer for drivers, Choose let me pick from a list, Click on Have a Disk and point to the folder with the Drivers. Jack-MVP Windows Networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET

ok i have downloaded this file from the link you posted above at the bottomit has an auto installer which i ran and seemed to install the driver. my big issue at this point is the realtek ethernet adapter does not appear in device manager and is not an option in new hardware installer i have the driver saved in folder on pc but cannot do anything with it unless it is in the device managerrealtek etheret adapter doesnot appear in device manage and i cannot update drivers for it because it is not there.add new hardware wizard will not allow me to add realtek ethernet adapter it is not on the list.also want to be sure i have the correct driver file here WinXP 32/64 and Win2K Auto installation Program (SID:1428415)5.7192010/10/215038k

HiThat can happen if the Network card is Not functioning. I.e., hardware problem.If the Card is Onboard card, check in the BIOS if it is enable.Otherwise try another PCI card (should not cost more than $10).Example, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127102 Jack-MVP Windows Networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET

will do, had never had this problem before so i didnt expect part to be bad but replacing it will surley fix my problem i just wanted to rule out anything else before i spent anymore of my friends money had already checked bios by the way

I have the same problem but I think that my Netword card is,wait is "Netword card" the same thing as a "network adapter" ?Because I don't know if I can find what my card is but I do have some identification of my network adapterwhich displays first as "Direct Parallel" with no yellow exclamation marks next to itthen it displays as a "Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection with a location of PCI bus 1, device 8, function 0, with no yellow exclamation marks to itthen it displays a "Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter" with a network address of 192.168.0.1 and it has a driver named tunmp.sys and no yellow markthen the problems start of 2 duplicate listings of the "Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter" both with yellow exclamation marksAnd I have updated the software driver to what is exactly the same that is listed above as tunmp.sys but still it has a network address of 169.254.179.171 and a yellow exclamation mark. And the 3rd duplicate is exactly the same as the prior 2 but with nothing filled in at the network address.Do the yellow exclamation marks mean that my computer is running worse? Because I would like to get rid of the errors because it is much more sluggish and slow moving. But then not terribly once I start deleting stuff. Sorry for the long question. If you could answer it would be great. Course I realize the best answer would be to get a new Windows 7 computer. Which I might be saving up for in which case I have to ask you does a Mac computer come with Windows 7 on it? Because I am going to get a MAC laptop because of no viruses and is its operating system completely different? Is it better to get the MAC operating system or to get it with Windows 7?