hi, i had a major windows crash which forced me to reinstall windows. once windows was reinstalled freshly as the origanal could not be repaired i had no internet what-so-ever. i went to the control panel and i cannot create a connection (lan) it just has the create wizard than says i do not have the required hardware but its built into the motherboard so there should be no problem. but the network adapter doesnt even come up as hardware or even unidentified hardware. anyways any help at all would be great or if u want additional info let me know pleaaase.

Thanks in advance. Justin

Have you added the hardware?

yea i tried to add the hardware but it doesnt recognize it as hardware its there but cannot be detected, and its an onboard.

I aren't an expert but ,Windows may not be able to see the onboard NIC until you install the motherboard chipset drivers. ...