shorter answer, ? 2005 PC , XP day 1 new, is it XP now?
NO OS told, you want to run, no clues. XP?
1-HP ended support. long ago ,hp.com see they did. ALL GONE.!
2-MS PnP plug and play , may work but not OS told at all. how sad.
3-GOOGLING this for a fact will get your PC infected, for sure
if running XP to W7, not told.
so lets focus only on 2 bad things
NIC Ethernet that makes #2 above dead.
this PC is a relic, and but I will lockup the NIC for you.
what is actually there, (HP, hates true specs but I can do it)
french PC , I'm USA so might get this wrong, ours can be different.
can I presume PC is not dead and runs XP?
what must be does is get the driver on a 2PC (nic) move it to the M7000
to get the driver, it must match the PC and the OS. fully.
lets discover what nic chip is there now. (not wifi, I refuse wifi)
it is the
- Chipset Type Intel P965 Express
oops 965 has no NIC that means it has ethernet card.
or has other chip Ethernet there, dedicated
and is HP secret this, not in the spec.
that leaves 2 choices, add one or find the ID's in device manger.
NO OS TOLD I give up.
xp has no support now, so adding new NC card will fail
but and old XP nic card will work if running virus magnet XP.
in device manager, in page control panel. do this
click on NIC and right click properties.
these magic PnP codes,(5) tells what NIC is really there
with the code we can you all operating systems support this chip
XP yes, w10- mostly not. 2005 is 16 years ago but I'd have to look.