Hi again I have spent the last few hours trying to find Ethernet drivers for my wife's PC Motherboard MZN68-LA and all I get so far is software to find out what drivers we need and If I buy the software it will do it all for me lol. Which would be very nice except without the drivers in question no internet service is available. I have just uninstalled Win 7 and replaced it with Win XP Home edition. The PC is Compaq - Hewlett Packard. If more info is needed to help me I will do my best. Any help will be very much appreciated........John

On brand name computers like that drivers are normally installed during a system recovery procedure run from a hidden hard drive partition. That procedure would probably reinstall the version of the Operating System that came with the computer. Some recovery procedures might also remove programs that were installed since the computer was first started and/or the user's data files (duplication of data files on removable media like an external hard drive is recommended).Computer/motherboard manufacturers might not develop drivers for OS versions that weren't current when the hardware was originally offered for retail sale. Similarly, manufacturers might not develop new drivers for equipment that was no longer being sold when a newer OS version was released.

Yup. As Robert said, the drivers you need should have been installed with XP. I guess we need more information on what you did.

This is what he did.http://forum.avsim.net/topic/352461-help-please/

If you know what network adapter hardware the PC has (find out from XP's Device Manager) you should be able to download the proper specific driver(s) for free..What do you see if you do Start > Control Panel > System (double-click) > Hardware (tab) > Device Manager (button) > Network Adaptors ?That should tell you what, if any, networking hardware you have.

Hi again I have spent the last few hours trying to find Ethernet drivers for my wife's PC Motherboard MZN68-LA and all I get so far is software to find out what drivers we need and If I buy the software it will do it all for me lol. Which would be very nice except without the drivers in question no internet service is available. I have just uninstalled Win 7 and replaced it with Win XP Home edition. The PC is Compaq - Hewlett Packard. If more info is needed to help me I will do my best. Any help will be very much appreciated........John

HelloThis is your motherboardhttp://h10025.www1.h...=c00906129#N247The Networking chipset is : Realtek RTL8201NThere is a page here detailing the drivers needed for this motherboard under Windows XP this is the same board used in the Compaq CQ5210Fhttp://www.computing...q5210f/366.htmlThe board was made by Asustek (asus) and there appears to be only W7 support for it from HP.The network driver is :Realtek RTL8201N Network Adapter, and other adapters.The driver is contained in NForce_winxp32_15.16_international.exeThey are available from HP here along with probably the rest of the drivers you will need:http://h10025.www1.h...de&dlc=en&lc=enAlternatively they are available here:http://www.mmnt.net/.../Chipset/NVidianforce_winxp32_15.16_international.exe