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HP Pavilion a6212n PC
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I cant find my network adapter in divice management. I tried to hit view hidden and still nothing. Please email me at [personal info removed] or msg me at [personal info removed] on solutions. I am on a friends pc and my pc cant connect to internet and idk why. Please help

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HP Pavilion a6212n PC (2007 , 13 year old PC,  scrap it?) core2 is no good. 945 chip set wow. old.

Pentium E2140 old and weak CORE2 DUO.

IS this  some relic OLD PC,  A series is.

it has Ethernet new. Integrated 10/100 Base-T networking interface(slug net)

that takes  a wired cable to work and w10 driver do not support this old PC, as is the case  on all super old PC.

how did w10 get here?

there is no WIFI unless you add it and only w10 supported

there can be new WIFI card added easy in any desktop for w10 full speed and is plug in play.

or try to make HP win 7 driver for this NIC work

do to that (checken & egg) trick is to get it at your support page,  hp.com and copy it to usb stick mem.

then move stick to dead PC (NIC) and install it using W10 compatibility mode w7 to 10.

there is no other way unless you get wifi working first the do the upgrade to the ethernet chip that way.

we called that for years SNEAKerNET.

NIC DEAD THERE  makes plug and play dead,

so the cure is get internet up  via  the driver from PC 2 to yours, via USB drive.  see?

or buy 2 cards, one wifi one new ethernet and use that,  vast persons have, for sure 1gigablit NIC card. and wifi 802.11AC

 

NO warranty answers by me.
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@Blitzmark999 

Given this was days ago, I guess you never got this working.

 

We are a peer-to-peer forum and have no means of messaging or emailing customers -- this forum is our means of making contact.

 

If you are still working this issue, then reply to this thread and I will try to provide some help.



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