Fresh install windows 7 no internet

For this, Go to Control Panel. A new Windows will appear in a while. This is another a main common cause for Internet connection problems. It may lead to making automatically USB shortcut virus. Sometimes the software goes overboard and it ends up messing up your connection to the Internet. Sign in. Forgot your password? Write that down. Whats the Make and Model of the laptop? Unless you are using the supplied restore media you need to go to the manufacturers website and find the ethernet or wifi driver for that model.

Install the driver, connect to the internet and then you can download drivers directly to your PC from the same website. Everyone above is correct Otherwise, lookup the manufacturer of the NIC card s and get the drivers off of their site If it installs on Windows Then for windows 7, go to the manufacturers site and install that driver for windows 7.

If you had Win8 on this note down the device names, then find the drivers for it before you wipe it, or just leave windows 8 on, what's the problem? You are making this sound so much more difficult than it is, and you still have not told us what make and model the laptop is.

Sometimes, System Manufacturers use multiple network cards in the same model of computer. As others also said, if it works in Win 8 then that's because the driver is a part of a base Win 8 install. If all else fails, stay with Win 8 make sure you paid for a proper license , or take it to a friend who knows more about computer hardware or a local computer shop for more assistance. Find the missing driver - right click properties - click on details and under 'property' click hardware id, copy this id into google looking for win7 drivers.

Nov 15, 6 0 4, 0. I recently did a fresh install of Windows 7 on my Lenovo P Thinkpad. I've tried every driver on The Lenovo for wireless on this laptop, but nothing works.

Thanks in advance. May 11, 98 0 10, Jul 27, 30 0 10, 6. That looks like an interesting solution, the problem is that what if he can't connect to the internet at all? What you need to do: on the Lenovo: go to 'control panel' 'device manager', find the unknown ethernet device, right click it, then 'properties'. This will pull up the dialog for the specific device. Click the 'details' tab, then in the drop down selection box, pull up 'hardware ids'.

Write down that long string, then on a different computer with internet access hopefully you have that , do a google search for that string. From there, go to the manufacturers website and you should be able to find drivers for the particular hardware. From there, download them to a thumb drive, then install it and see if that doesn't work. If it does, then you can try the slim drivers program listed above to manage the rest of your drivers. Jul 7, 50 0 18, 4.

Most laptops have a partition on the HDD that has all of your drivers. If you did not format the whole drive. I was able to use slim driver to find the appropriate patch after using a usb wifi dongle to get internet to the laptop. Thanks everyone for their help. You must log in or register to reply here. I just did a fresh Windows 10 install on my Asus k55a laptop but now I'm getting a ton of pop up window messages?

Thanks for your feedback. Rest of the Drivers included the Graphics Drivers so you can alter the screen resolution to make things smaller. Now I cannot connect to the internet at all. Screen says it cannot locate network adapter. I don't know what I am doing. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.