Cannot find ethernet drivers for ...Drivers found, now lets bash HP.

[lordtodd75]

OK. It has been four hours and I cannot find any ethernet controller drivers for my compaq. Here are some pertinent specs:

make = compaq presario
model = 6027us
processor = pentium 4 2 GHZ
mobo = Compaq 07e8h
chipset = intel i845g
onboard ethernet

I have been to hp and intel's web site and have found nothing. I googled it and every link lead back to hp.com I called hp tech support and they want 45 bucks to tell me where to get the drivers. Oh and they also informed me that I need to change my networking settings, WTF? The only site I found any reference to those specific drivers is driverguide.com After doing there registration and following all the steps I still can't login, it say I did not validate even though I have done this numerous times. I am about 5 seconds from just going and buying a pci ethernet card, which just makes me mad even thinking about it. So I decided to come to the omnipotent and omniscient BYOAC everything forum to be enlightened. <ridiculous droning noise>

Anyone who can helps me solve this quandary will receive an xbox 360(harpal issued) and a hearty pat on the back. You guys rock nuts!!!!

[Thenasty]

I tried google and this is waht I found in 20 seconds..

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?product=94088&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&cc=us

[lordtodd75]

Let me start by saying thank you for trying to help, your xbox360 is on its way  . I have actually been to that page numerous times. If you take a look, there are no ethernet drivers. Back to the drawing board. 

[Thenasty]

can't wait to recieve the 360. Anyway, XP should detect your NIC. Make sure its enabled in bios. How about removing it from device manager and refreshing it...

[crashwg]

Only thing I can find was on driverguide and it's for XP, hope that's what you're running...

P.S. Change the file extension to .exe as usual

[lordtodd75]

XP does detect the device, there is just simply no driver. I tried reinstalling using the XP cd as well as deleting the hardware through device manager and rebooting, they were both a no go. I finally got my registration to go through for driverguide.com and those drivers did work  You would think HP would make drivers for there products a little more accessible, even if the product is 4 years old. What really irks me is that HP tech support would have taken my 45 dollars, changed a couple of my settings and when that didn't work they would have sent me awat claiming the mobo was bad or something. I really hate HP, I have had nothing but problems with there customer and software support 

Thanks a lot for your suggestions guys 

Down with HP!!! 

[shmokes]

I hate all tech support.  But, for what it's worth, I needed NIC drivers yesterday for a DELL and their site only had the usual suspects (Win 98, 2000, NT, XP).  I needed NDIS DOS drivers so I could make a network boot disk for Symantec Ghost.  I opened up a chat session with a tech and she immediately linked me to the XP drivers I'd already seen on the site.  I told her that they were for XP and she said, download the file and unzip it and you'll see a folder in there with NDIS drivers.

I was fairly impressed.  This seems WAY beyond what the average PC tech support person would know, or even understand.  Most have probably never heard of DOS.