Ethernet card Dev ID 054C on Vista clean install (dv9000)

Hi all:

Googled and searched on this site to no avail. Looking for the drivers on the dv9000 series for the ethernet adapter. Did a clean install of Vista and managed to get all the yellow question marks out of device manager except the wired Ethernet controller.

Did the full install of the latest nvidia chipset drivers which included the Ethernet drivers as one of the options - to no avail. Ethernet adapter is still not recognized.

Hardware ID in device manager is 054C.

Could someone please tell me what card this is and where I can get the drivers for it?

Thanks!

 

What are your specs?

Have you checked the HP driver and support page?

 

dv9000, specifically the 9804 I believe. Not my computer. Did this for a friend it's not working (kind of embarassing).

Checked the site, nothing in their list of Vista drivers works.
Called HP, they wouldn't help because we did a Clean install (and didn't use the recovery disc).

Any ideas? We managed to get every other driver installed except the ethernet driver, and its rather urgent because he doesn't have wireless and needs to use that wired ethernet controller to get on the net.

Also tried RealTek drivers from station-drivers. No-go.

Help!

 

Did you install the Intel chipset ICH8 driver?

Did you try both the outdated and latest ethernet drivers?

Try using windows update, that might somehow show up the right drivers

 

We can't do a Windows update, because we can't connect to the internet without the wired adapter! The wireless card is working, but we don't have wireless access!

I am pretty sure there's no Intel chipset on this lappie as the Nvidia chipset drivers installed without a hitch, and the Ethernet driver was included in that package of drivers (straight from Nvidia's site). However, the ethernet driver in the Nvidia package doesn't seem to be the right driver.

I didn't try an outdated Nvidia driver.

Our next still will be to try the SoftPaq 37730 nForce AR Chipset driver as suggested on this HP page http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service...47627+1216649724251+28353475&threadId=1247199 ... however, this problem refers to Win Vista 64 which we're not running, so I'm not holding out hope that this will be the correct solution.

Any other ideas would be welcome. I can't believe this is so NOT striaghtforward.

 

lol silly me, totally forgot no internet.

Yes im suprised myself, especially for Vista. Everything should have gone smoothly, id expect something like this happen to an XP installtion.