Ethernet Controller I am working on a Dell Dimension 3000.  It experienced some major problems from viruses that forced me to reinstall the operating system.  I did not have the original recovery disk (XP Home) that came with the system, so I borrowed a disk from a friend who has XP Pro.  The operating system installed with absolutely no problems, expect for some missing drivers. Two of the more notable drivers that I need are the Ethernet Controller (highly important) and the VGA driver.  I am currently using a different friends laptop until I get the desktop working. Also, I searched the Dell website for the ethernet driver and found nothing and I no longer have the driver disk to reinstall all the drivers. Thanks for any help.

Could you please let me know why your trying to reinstall the Operating System? Is there a Boot Issue or a Virus?

That's virus. Best to install the operating systems over again try seeing if you can back up your info so after re installation you can run deep anti virus scan...

KJR

install all driver again....

you will have to open up your network connections click start control panel network connections this may vary depending on your operating system look for local area connection if you see a

red x or a yellow exclamation or question mark you will need to update or install the driver or it could be firewalled or you could click start control panel administrative tools computer management device manager look for network adapters + expand Ethernet driver

if you see a yellow question exclamation mark or a red X you will need to update/reinstall the driver for the device if you computer came with a motherboard disk the driver could be on it
driver or the isp providers installation disk

or you might have to download one

http://download.cnet.com/Realtek-RTL8139-Family-PCI-Fast-Ethernet-NIC/3000-2112_4-91313.html
if this driver is not right
http://download.cnet.com/2000-20_4.html
on the home page you should see a search tab just type in what you are looking for

IE: motherboard name ethernet driver you might have to try a few times to get it right

hope it helps

There are couple of reasons for this problem: Virus, corrupted Operating system (try to reinstall OS), memory problem (try to install another good memory module), and the worst of all, defective motherboard/processor. Good luck

You are unable to use the Ethernet, VGA etc. because you have not installed the drivers for the same.

You might have received a Drivers CD(it will read "Drivers and Utilities") which will be in blue color, when you got the computer from Dell.
In case if you haven't received it you can contact Dell on 1-800-624-9897 and request for a Driver CD. I guess this Dimension model is @ End of Life (I mean no more produced by dell) you might have to download the drivers from Dell's support site (www.support.dell.com) you will have to get it downloaded on a different computer and copy on a CD or a Flash drive.

Once you got all the drivers. First extract them in a separate folder

Go to Device manager
Right click on the Ethernet controller (where you see a yellow exclamation)
Click update drivers
Show the path where you have the driver files

Go to the device manager and scroll down to your ethernet controller. highlight the device, right click and uninstall it but keep the drivers. Turn off the computer completely...pull the plug out of the back and wait 10 seconds and plug back in. wait another 30 seconds and reboot. Let windows find the hardware and reinstall the drivers. If windows asks to search windows update, allow it to do so and then after it stabilizes see if you can open a browser window.

In XP have windows find it
Go to device manager and delete the controller, and scan for changes. You can have it search where ever you want.
Let me know how you make out

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the sound card drivers?

i need an ethernet controller driver for my dell dimension 4600 the operating system is windows xp home edition