CF18 - Can get any network adapters to show up

I have a touchscreen MK3. I have never used it but finally threw an HD from my other CF18 and reloaded the factory discs.

It starts up fine and the touchscreen works, but I do not have any network adapters - no wireless or LAN port showing up at all.

I've tried downloading the MK3 driver pack (as well as the other 4 sets of drivers) and I get a "Device does not support" message whenever I try to run any of them. And I can't even see any unknown or uninstalled devices in the device manager.

What's the deal? Is my MOBO shot?


My other 18 is a digitizer model and I want to swap over the touchscreen. If I can't get this to work it's going to mean major surgery to try to swap the touchscreen over to the other mobo and try to make it work like that.

 

Did you check the bios to make sure they are enabled?

 

No, I did not. But that's a good idea! Off to check....

 

Well damn....somehow my screen is completely dead now. It was working fine before...shut it down and left it for a bit and came back and now the machine boots, but the screen will not turn on. Bummer.

 

Look above your head! Is there a black cloud following you?
Seriously though, plug an external monitor in the rear port and see what's up.

 

Well sunuva....

I plugged my desktop monitor in and the laptop screen instantly came on.

It then gave me an error - extended ram module failed so I pulled the ram and it started right up.

After getting in to the bios, I did find that the LAN and WLAN were both disabled. Started her back up and found my wireless network immediately and got right online!

Now to see if that ram is really dead or was maybe just seated wrong.


Thanks for all your help!

 

Could be seated wrong
Run a few passes with memtest86 to test

 

Memory is definitely dead. It will not boot up with the extra ram installed. Oh well...ram is cheap. The built-in 256 is apparently enough to run XP any way.


My next question is going to be - how hard is it to replace the keyboard? This one has the rubber keys and they suck! Pretty sure I'm gonna have to go back to the digitizer with solid keys if I can't replace this...

 

Well, that was easy - it takes about 3 minutes to swap keyboards on the 18!

 

Glad we could help.

 

Put that keyboard up on eBay and you'll probably get at least a c note for it!
CAP

 

The built in 256 also takes 20 seconds to respond to the menu opening up after the start button is pressed. That's if you have the classic start menu hope you can remedy that.