Today an old friend of mine’s wife who owns a small Architecture company,
did call asking if I can reinstall two computers running for her.
I accepted and here I am reinstalling the systems.
The first one lacked drivers and it was a real pain in the ass.
The system was a computer with Motherboard ASUS A7N8X-VM, in order to
determine the Motherboard type and chipset. I used a free program called
aida32 the program provides the user with quite a concrete description
of the computer hardware and is quite similar to the so famous but non-free
Everest .
After I’ve figured out the system hardware with AIDA32 which was:
Motherboard: ASUS A7N8X-VMChipset: NVIDIA Nforce IGPLAN Driver: NVIDIA-MCP2-Lan-ControllerGraphics Adapter: ATI Radeon 9600Sound Blaster: NVidia Audio Codec
Next I encountered problems finding the right driver pack, It took me
like 50 minutes to figure out what kind of driver should I use to make the
LAN Driver: NVIDIA-MCP2-Lan-Controller working on the PC.
I’ve found that actually this NVIDIA-MCP2-Lan-Controller is actually the:
Realtek RTL8201BL and therefore I need drivers for Realtek RTL8201BL.
After some time looking for the Driver I came to a forum which discussed the
issue. The author has revealed that the drivers required for the ASUS A7N8X-VM
is included in NVIDIA nforce in 15.45_nforce_winxp32_international_whql.exe
file which is available via nvidia.com’s website .After installing this NVIDIA nforce pack all worked like a charm!.
