Originally Posted by
joft
reinstalled windows on a dell, it's completely unable to detect or install drivers for the onboard network card or video card
device manager has "ethernet controller" in the "other devices" group with a yellow question mark and error code 28 (the drivers for this device are not installed). if i try to let windows automatically install drivers, it says "The wizard could not find the software on your computer for... Ethernet controller"
if i remove the device and try to manually add a new one, i'm given 3 options for network adapters, the only one that makes any difference is the microsoft loopback adapter, that one makes a connection appear in the network connections but it says limited or no connectivity, if i right click and hit repair it says "Renewing your IP address" for like 2 minutes and then says it failed to renew the IP and that's it