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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Dell Presicion M6600

    It's a fresh installation of windows 7 but no network drivers were installed. I've reinstalled but that made no difference, I've been to the Dell site but there appear to be a bunch of possible drivers but I can't even find out if it's Intel or Realtek. Speccy gave me nothing to go on.

    How do I find out what the networking hardware is?

    Thanks - rev

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    Look for the vendor and device ID in Device Manager first.
    https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to...dor-device-id/

    Pcidatabase.com is gone, but there are other sites. If you can at least find the vendor ID, you could try the drivers you see on the Dell site.

    https://www.pci-z.com/
    http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/

    https://www.devicekb.com/
    https://devicehunt.com/
    https://www.pcilookup.com/

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    >If you can at least find the vendor ID, you could try the drivers you see on the Dell site.
    Exactly, thanks for the links.

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    Typing systeminfo at the cmd got me the vendor (Intel) and I believe I found the right exe. Tried to install it and got 'entry point not found in kernell32,dll'

    I'm baffled, this is a virgin win 7 installation on a new SSD. I'm back to reinstalling unless you have another suggestion?

    Thanks - rev

    The third reinstallation of Win 7 failed to install to install a network driver. The owner said it always happened flawlessly in the past and I believe him but I have no explanaion for why it's not happening thid time.
    Last edited by Blindman; November 25th, 2024 at 01:12 PM.

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    You can always just try installing the drivers for that model from the Dell web site. If the hardware is missing or not found, you should just get an error message. If the drivers you tried were for one manufacturer, try the other one(s).

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    I'll do that. There are so many on the Dell site though.

    Is there any way I can find it from another installation of win 7? The owner has a second installation on an HDD in the machine, he only wanted to switch to an SSD because the boot time was 3 minutes on the HDD. If I could find it on the old installation, maybe I could copy it to the new?

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    If you can swap the drives back and boot from the old drive, Device Manager will tell you what drivers are in use.

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    Typing systeminfo at the cmd got me the vendor (Intel)
    Are you sure systeminfo told you the vendor ID of the unknown device? What did Device Manager say?

    From the link I posted earlier:
    https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to...dor-device-id/

    Open Device Manager
    Right-click on the unknown device, and click Properties
    Click the Details tab
    Select "Device instance path" from the Property drop-down menu

    Get the VEN_#### and DEV_#### codes

    Ex. PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&SUBSYS_06B71028&REV_31\3&11583659&0&B8

    Vendor ID = 8086
    Device ID = 2822

    Then look up the Vendor and Device IDs on one of these sites:
    https://www.devicekb.com/
    https://devicehunt.com/

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    Thanks to all of you. The owner lost patience and took the machine back.

    systeminfo didn't give me an ID but it did say Intel. I tried driver after driver but for most of them I got 'the procedure entry point not found in kernel32.dll'

    There used to be tools (Everest?) that polled the chip or did something to discover names as well as specs, I've never had such a hard time finding a driver. The Dell site assumes you're connecting with a Dell and tries to identify the machine, all very well if you are but there's no provision for someone in my situation. The client was on my back the whole time so I'm glad to be out of it.

    Thanks again! - rev

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