Not detecting network adapter

[meenmeen1103]

Tinkering with an old 'broken' system I was given, HP Pavilion MS235 all in one, I found the hard drive to be the main cause of failure. Replaced it with a known working one I had lying around, and went to installing a fresh Windows 7 on it, which it ran out of the box. I got it running fine, everything else seems to be in working order except the device manager doesn't even list any network adapters, which it should list both the ethernet and wireless card. It doesn't even have a "Network Adapters" entry on the main list. Attempting to install either the ethernet or wireless adapter drivers (sourced from HP website for the corresponding OS version and 64bit) yields an error along the lines of 'This system doesn't meet the requirements'. Before jumping to install said drivers, the fact the system doesn't appear to read the hardware led me to look for chipset drivers for this system but I haven't got anywhere with that from searching google. Am I missing something? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Find the model of the network card.

 

Download the driver from the manafactures website.

[ARikozuM]

22 minutes ago, meenmeen1103 said:

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Boot without and boot with the network card. Also check if everything plugged in firmly.

[meenmeen1103]

22 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Find the model of the network card.

 

Download the driver from the manafactures website.

The HP version is an installer package (which fails anyway), while the non HP ones I found require updating through device manager, where I'm meant to find the wireless adapter listed and update through there, but it's not listed, neither is the ethernet adapter which also doesn't work (lights up when a live ethernet cable is plugged in though, with the activity led blinking slowly).

24 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Boot without and boot with the network card. Also check if everything plugged in firmly.

Booted without the card, saw no changes in device manager, HP drivers still failing with 'This system does not meet the minimum system requirements' 9996 error code. Card is back in now, same results.

 

Guess it wouldn't hurt reinstalling Windows, not sure if it'll help though.

[Electronics Wizardy]

9 minutes ago, meenmeen1103 said:

The HP version is an installer package (which fails anyway), while the non HP ones I found require updating through device manager, where I'm meant to find the wireless adapter listed and update through there, but it's not listed, neither is the ethernet adapter which also doesn't work (lights up when a live ethernet cable is plugged in though, with the activity led blinking slowly).

Booted without the card, saw no changes in device manager, HP drivers still failing with 'This system does not meet the minimum system requirements' 9996 error code. Card is back in now, same results.

 

Guess it wouldn't hurt reinstalling Windows, not sure if it'll help though.

Try booting into a linux usb stick and see if it detects it.

 

It could be a ned network interface.

[meenmeen1103]

Good call. Ubuntu doesn't detect any network devices either. I wonder if this hardware related issue would also prevent a usb nic from working. Haven't used nor have one, but may be handy to keep around if it doesn't work anyway, and if it does it would be cheap enough I could at least then donate a working system