dual booting with no internet.

[Armageddon 747]

Hi people, i am having trouble getting an internet connection on windows xp professional after i dual booted my computer. i first started off using windows vista home premium to partition my harddrive, and when i instaled windows xp on that partition i found out that i couldnt get an internet connection, but i can still get a connection on the vista partition.


please can someone help me

thanks

[Ol'Tunzafun]

Is the network device recognized in device manager?

[Armageddon 747]

well i right clicked on my computer and went to manage, then i went to device manager, then clicked on network adapters and they had yellow marks like this[ !] on them?

[Steve R Jones]

That would indicate you need to install the drivers.

[Armageddon 747]

Hi people i made a mistake, i accidentaly said that i clicked on device manager then went to network adapters and said that they all had yellow marks like this[ ! ]. well it turns out that it said in the network adapters tab [ 1394 net adapter ], i was looking at a different tab where it said other devices [ and they all had the yellow marks like this [!] next to them. sorry for that people.

[Train]

1394 net adapter = firewire

And you still need the drivers for anything with the yellow splat with the ! mark.

[Armageddon 747]

Is firewire a good thing?

and how do i update the drivers that have the splat mark like this [!] on them if i have no internet connection?

[Steve R Jones]

hmmm..Are you on the internet NOW asking the question aren't you

So I'm guessing Vista still works doesn't it?

[Train]

Hit the website of the maker of the computer's website and under support you should find those needed drivers.

Now should that be a custom/home built rig, then hit the motherboard makers website.
Nothing wrong with burning the drivers to a cd / place on a thumb drive and transfering to your rig.

[Armageddon 747]

ok thanks ill try it out.

[Armageddon 747]

I now have my windows xp internet working! yeah it was the drivers that needed updating and i went to the drivers website to get the latest updates and instaled them using the program called driver robot. that program allowed me to take a snapshot of my driver problems and then put that file of the snapshot on a memmory stick , then i went to my vista partition and used that program again to download the drivers i needed because the vista partition has the internet working.

A big thanks to you guys. cheers!