Reinstalled Win Me but.... (see original posting downgrading from XP)

[hootsmon]

Hello Peeps,

                  Managed to reinstall Me again and sort out all of  the problems concerning drivers having to be reinstalled, but cannot get Me OS to accept my D-Link PCI adapter. Have installed original driver that came with adapter ( I think it's the right driver CD, it came with adapter) but checking in Device Manager shows an exclamation mark beside D-Link, can't resolve problem, have tried unistalling adapter and reinstalling driver with no success. Any ideas, do you think it could be a driver conflict?
PC did not come with an ethernet adapter installed, I only had it put in when I had XP put on machine.
Do you think Win Me could be installing the driver for the old dial-up adapter and could that be causing a driver conflict?

[TheEmperor]

Uninstall the driver.
Shutdown the machine.
Remove the ethernet card.
Boot up the machine.
Shut the machine back down.
Install the ethernet card.
Start the machine up.
It should detect it and ask for the drivers. Give it the driver disk and it should install and work.

Let me know how it goes.

[hootsmon]

Looked at driver file details in device manager, it listed the following;
C:\windows\system\NDIS.VXD
C:\windows\system\VMM.32.VXD [ntkern.vxd]

Is this what I should be uninstalling?

If so how do I go about it?

Do I uninstall them from the C:\ drive by right clicking the file and removing?

[TheEmperor]

No no. Go to Device Manager, right click on the Ethernet card and click remove.

[hootsmon]

No no. Go to Device Manager, right click on the Ethernet card and click remove.

Have tried the above several times to no avail, even tried a different pci slot, I can only think that it's not the correct driver for the D-Link ethernet adapter.

Not able to get online with that pc to download another driver, may have to invest in a new adapter, don't have the driver for the one on this pc, so I can't try that one either.

Any more suggestions?

[patio]

I'd just buy a new card and go from there...it will ship with drivers.

[hootsmon]

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I'd just buy a new card and go from there...it will ship with drivers.

Managed to get online using wireless, will download driver from website.

Thanks for your input.