Problem With Linksys Wireless G-Card among other things!

[ssynesthesia]

I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro motherboard, AMD -64 processor. I have WIN XP PRO x64 installed on my computer. I actually just reformatted and installed win xp pro x64 again. I am having problems installing any network cards.

I have tried to install 2 different cards of each: Linksys Wireless G-card pci edition and NetGear FA311 10/100 MBPS PCI ETHERNET NETWORK CARD. Both are not working. I tried to install the drivers for each and it doesnt help. I have rebooted with the linksys installation cd in and tried to install the drivers from the disk. The device manager shows that I have a unknown Ethernet controller and a unknown Network Controller. I have reinstalled the chipsets and everything I can install for the motherboard in hopes to maybe fix a potential PCI driver problem. But the PCI slots work for my video card which is a PCI card. This only doesn't work for the networking cards I am using. I have even switched them around and still the video card works but the networking cards don't, the linksys installation tells me to turn the computer off and plug the linksys in the pci slot, even though it is already in there, so it must not recognize it. I am still getting the problem after completely updating the motherboard drivers. I have put the driver sets on the computer for both of the different kinds of networking cards (the linksys and NetGear) and windows doesn't recognize them as being the correct drivers so doesn't install them. I have also tried to install them directly using the "choose a driver to install" option and chose the driver and still, it didn't work.

What can I do now?? I am at my wits end!

[Changeling]

My only thoughts on this are to remove the network card, then install the drivers from the CD then turn off the PC replace the card.

You say that the installation process stops, asks you to fit the card then continue. The fact that the card is already fitted can cause the process to fail.

I have come across this before with belkin LAN cards.

[ssynesthesia]

Originally Posted by Changeling

My only thoughts on this are to remove the network card, then install the drivers from the CD then turn off the PC replace the card.

You say that the installation process stops, asks you to fit the card then continue. The fact that the card is already fitted can cause the process to fail.

I have come across this before with belkin LAN cards.

Thanks for the help thus far. The reason I am still doing this at 3:00am is because tomorrow this computer needs to be used for running an insurance company, so as you can assume, it is a big deal that this get running. Any help is very appreciated.

I followed your advice and alas, no change. I took the card out, installed the software, which prompted to shut the computer down and put the card in. I did this and put the card in a pci slot, and started back up. Nothing changed and it didn't say "new hardware" or anything like that. I went to device manager and tried to again install the driver from the disk on "network controller" under the "other devices" folder and again it said that it couldn't find it.

NOW WHAT?!??! I have tried various technical supports on the phone, and nobody can help me. What do I do!?!?

[ebackhus]

The last build I had used that same board and I loaded those PCI slots with different cards. Since the Device Manager recognized the hardware I wouldn't say that the slots are bad. Check the BIOS to make sure that it's set for a PnP OS, otherwise you'll run into issues with addon cards. You can also try each slot with the video card by hopping it and rebooting.

EDIT

This board has an onboard gigabit NIC, is there a reason you're not using that? Also, if this PC is necessary for business I would HIGHLY recommend using only a wired connection.