Solved Can't Find Network Wifi Adapter Driver

[qurious]

Taken the IDE hard drive (with Windows 8.1 installed) out of HP Pavilion 15-e72sa laptop and replaced it with a Crucial SSD drive, then installed Windows 7 but cannot get an internet connection. There are yellow warning markers in Device Manager next to the Network Adapter and Ethernet Controller. The laptop has a Realtek RTL8188EE 802.11bgn Wifi Adapter for which I can only find a driver which is for Windows 8. Tried and tried to find a suitable Windows 7 driver version to no avail. I would really appreciate any advice.

 

[richnrockville]

qurios, welcome to the windows 7 forum. Have you looked at the HP website for the model of laptop?
they usually have drivers for most OS's. Sometimes the Vista driver will work on windows 7 if it is an older laptop.

you need the motherboard drivers as well as the network device drivers and video card drivers.

Rich

 

[qurious]

Thank you for your reply richnrockville. I have tried Realtek, Hp and various other driver download sites.
The laptop is new and all other drivers are up to date.

 

[maxie]

Hi there .. Did you try this Version on the HP website >>> Ralink 802.11 b/g/n WiFi Adapter
2013-04-08 , Version5.0.23.0, 36.53M ... Its different from the one you Posted above

 

[maxie]

The one below should work ...

Drivers, Software and Firmware for HP ProBook 440 G0 Notebook PC - HP Support Center


If the Link does not take you direct to the Driver page do a Google search for the following

Drivers, Software and Firmware for HP ProBook 440 G0 Notebook PC

 

[qurious]

Thank you for you reply. It is now thankfully sorted.

 

[maxie]

Most welcome glad you got it sorted