Windows earlier than XP had more limited versions of the hardware installation wizard. Most of the time I had to have an installation CD for the device that installed the driver directly rather than using the new hardware wizard.
When the "found new hardware" came up, were you given an option to let Windows find the driver on a disk or CD? You might be able to get the driver loaded in this fashion assuming you don't have an installation disk.
Does your network card show up in the device manager? If so you might be able to use the "update driver" feature to get a dialog box having the option of looking for the driver on a disk.
You didn't go into the details of your installation procedure, so forgive me if this question is redundant; did you load the chip set driver following your installation of the OS? Lack of this driver can result in some interesting problems.
Sorry I can't think of anything better. Good luck!
Thanks for the reply Jack. Yes, when I boot up the Add New Hardware Window appears, it searches for a driver and says it's unable to find it. I did load the chipset driver, and the CD loads the driver but for some reason it doesn't locate it. It has a question mark by network driver in Device Manager. The OS is 98.
Are you using the option that the new hardware wizard gives you for telling it where the driver is located? If you have a valid driver on the disk Windows will usually find it. I forget what extension it is looking for, but if your driver isn't named right Windows will never find it.
Is it possible the driver is zipped or something?
Message Edited by JackShack on 08-12-2005 09:43 PM
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Thanks for the reply Jack. Yes, when I boot up the Add New Hardware Window appears, it searches for a driver and says it's unable to find it. I did load the chipset driver, and the CD loads the driver but for some reason it doesn't locate it. It has a question mark by network driver in Device Manager. The OS is 98.
Thanks and any more ideas would be appreciated.
Steve
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Message Edited by JackShack on 08-12-2005 09:43 PM