I have a gateway laptop and it is not the newest machine but is plenty to browse the internet and my wife to do her pictures and myspace. It runs windows xp profesional. I was hooking up a new computer so i could have two running at the sametime. I was trying to shut down the laptop and it was like that laptop was just plain ignoring me. It wasn't doing anything, but everything else work i could still browse the os and run other programs. It just refused to shut off. So after getting tired of waiting i just pulled the plug. When I got around to hooking up my router and the laptop again, I plugged the laptop back in and it had to reinstall windows all together from the files that were on the hard drive. That is all said and done and the computer is working normally except for the fact that my computer doesn't even know that the network card that is in it, is there. When i try to find it, it just tells me that the appropriate hardware is not installed and the driver for my network card is nowhere to be found. I really don't want to have to rip the laptop open. Is there a solution to this problem? Is there a way to tell my computer that the network card is there? If anyone has any tip or can help please let me know i would appriciate it thanx.
