I have a Acer Aspire 5742 , I recently reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate. For some odd reason after complete installation there was no network connection. It shows an x under my network . I tired plugging in the Ethernet adapter but nothing happened. I also tried the fn function to turn on the wireless network , but yet again nothing happened. Any idea how I can solve this problem?
Have you checked device manager to see if drivers are installed, if theres a problem with it it will have a yellow caution symbol next to it
Take a look inside the Device Manager . See if you have any of thesein there .
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In the Start Search programs and files box type device manager and then press enter
Didn't see Pauly post the samething .
All I see is this...and if it is a driver issue can you please provide the correct link.
EDIT: I found the drivers but which one is it?
Last edited by Rawad; 06 Jun 2013 at 14:14.
You are missing your network drivers, you will need to use another machine and go to your mobo manufacturers website and download them to usb stick or something them you can install them on your machine
Acer | Download
Select your model and look for LAN driver its about 10MB
When you get the LAN working the other two will probably auto install from windows update but you may need to manually check for updates
What is it exactly called so I could download it?
Visit the link i gave you select your model then download the driver labelled LAN
That driver is good for 32 or 64 bit OS
[QUOTE=Pauly;2425279]Visit the link i gave you select your model then download the driver labelled LAN
Alright so I downloaded the the drivers you suggested and yes progress has been, in fact the Ethernet cable can be detected now. Now what, wireless is still not working, it still got that x.
The red X means there is no Ethernet cabled connected to the laptop .
Do you need a wireless driver ? Can you show an image of the device manager ?
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