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‎10-31-2016 10:51 AM

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Product: HP Pavilion HPE h8-1040 Deskto
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

I had a clossal boot failure of Windows 10 not long aggo and since I was not able to get into Windows 10 to do a reset - I reached for an OEM Win 7 install disk I'd had almost 2 years.

 

The install went great but when trying to access the internet from Comcast I learned that I needed a driver. 

 

I downloaded the driver only to sadly learn that it seems I cannot use this driver since I am on a wired (hard) connection. Also this layout is totally foreign to me since another of my computers (not an HP) is easy as pie to work with.

 

What I  need to know is this: Can this driver work with a wired connection and not wireless or is there another driver available that will work?

 

The computer functioned flawlessly with my original Win 7 64 bit O/S and with Windows 10 until the failure.

 

Any help will be appreciated since if I can't connect to the net then this 74 year old man is very much out of luck and has wasted an install and could wind up with an expensive paper-weight !!!

 

Additionally - - - WHY didn't the driver be installed when I was installing Win 7? Other installs on different computers have never had this problem! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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