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OlivierThePro
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So,

today i recovered a old server from my dads work. Its an old windows server running on windows xp. But it has 3 ethernet ports and no mather wich one i connect to i cant acces the internet. Can you help me with this. Also can i install windows 10 home on this machine? I would use it for gaming.

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2 minutes ago, OlivierThePro said:

So,

today i recovered a old server from my dads work. Its an old windows server running on windows xp. But it has 3 ethernet ports and no mather wich one i connect to i cant acces the internet. Can you help me with this. Also can i install windows 10 home on this machine? I would use it for gaming.

What model is the server?  You will probably need to download the drivers on another machine and install them manually from a USB.

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That could be any number of things and since 3 is an odd number one of those is probably a console/maintenance port.

Do the interfaces show up under network connections just as disabled?

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What is it? Model? If it’s running XP it isn’t too likely to be good for much these days as far as a gaming workload goes. 

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For a xp server machine, it may not have PCI-Express, you cannot install a decent GPU to play your games.

I think the machines is a xeon from pre core 2 era. You will need to have core 2 quad to play modern games smoothly.

Reset the network configurations to use the internet. As the LAN port may have some proxies.

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