No Internet - Driver Problem

Got an email today “Can you help a mate out who has a PC which won’t connect to the net” “sure, tell him to bring it over”, malware with proxy server is what I’m thinking, however when the person turns up, he tell me that he brought the PC from a boot fair, it was full of viruses so he formatted it & reinstalled XP home, since then it has not connected to the net.

This is what I did:

Looking at the PC, its old, looks like an old school PC – I have a good idea what the problem could be.

I connect the PC up, click IE; sure enough it does not connect to the net.

Going on my hunch I check the drivers:

Start>Control panel>System>Hardware tab>Device manager

Sure enough my hunch was right two drivers missing, which are required for the net.

I put a Belin N Wireless USB Adapter in the USB, windows picks it up, but cannot find a driver for it, I put a USB stick in which has the driver on it, driver loads & in no time, I set the Belin N Wireless USB Adapter up.

Click IE & it connects to the net, go to windows updates & tell it to update:

http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us

(if the PC had not updated, I would of stopped work on the PC, an OS that won’t update is not worth working on, note that people with pirate OS, if your OS does not update get a better pirate OS)

There are a lot of updates so I go for a cuppa tea.

After rebooting a number of times & returning to windows update, I have all the security updates, I return to window updates & click custom (not Express) I’m looking on the left for any driver updates, there are none.

I then download free DriverMax:

http://www.drivermax.com/

I’ve use this program many times before, not all the driver are good, so I download both the drivers I require, but I install them one at a time, making sure I do a system restore point before installing a driver, only when I happy with the first driver do I install the second driver.
I remove my Belin N Wireless USB Adapter, reboot the PC, click IE, it connect to the net, I remove DriverMax.

I then contact the person to pick up the PC, he was happy with what I did.

 

DriverMax

Please don't ask how to use free DriverMax - There are plenty of  video's on YouTube.

Free DriverMax only allows you to download two drivers per 24 hours

If you've going to leave DriverMax on your PC you might want to remove it from startup.