win 7 drivers for older pc

[b-man]

i have an asus p4sgx-mx mother board and i need a lan driver for it for win 7

i did have it running win7 a while ago and somehow it could connect to my network so obviously had a driver for it but after a reformat (use it as my test machine) it doesnt have a lan driver i cant find one thru windows online search or on the windows 7 disc???? and all the 1s i can find are xp versions??? does anyone know where i could find a win 7 lan driver for it??

[jaclaz]

Should be a SiS900 based card.

See here, there are reports of cases where the XP one did work:

http://any-tips.blogspot.com/2009/03/sis-900-windows-xp-driver-works-on.html

It seems like an updated Windows 7 driver exists in Windows Update....

If you go to the Windows Update Catalog at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=8973 (requires IE) and search for SiS 900 you will get a list which includes version 2.0.1039.1210 for Windows 7. It actually appears 4 times in the list due to different languages and x86/x64 versions, but the descriptions are the same. Just add them all to your download basket. They are small, so you can download all 4 in a minute. After they are downloaded, look at the filenames and you will be able to find the one you need. Each driver will be in a cab file which you can easily extract using any archiver (or just plain Windows Explorer).

Of course your mileage may vary.

jaclaz

[b-man]

hmm yeah seems xp drivers worked thanks

i was sure windows automatically update it last time tho..??? anyway works cheers

[jaclaz]

hmm yeah seems xp drivers worked thanks

i was sure windows automatically update it last time tho..??? anyway works cheers

yet another happy bunny in the basket! :

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128727&st=10

From what I read, it seems like ONCE you have the XP drivers installed THEN Windows Update can get the 7 one "automatically".

In any case, it doesn't cost you anything to try updating now, and see what happens.

jaclaz