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Hey all,

I just did a fresh install of 7 on my pc and I'm having a couple of issues:

1) my ethernet port it not recognizing the dsl line running into it. What I have done thus far is uninstall the sis-900 ethernet adapater from device manager. Installed fresh drivers from the microsoft software catalogue and still nothing. There are no flashing lights on the port either. I have though managed to get the pc hooked up to the net by isntalling a wireless usb adapter, and I have done all of the necessary update from microsoft. I wouldn't normally care about DSL when I have wlan, but the reason this is bothering me is because I also have Ubuntu 10.10 installed alongside of it. Ubuntu is not picking up either the wireless adapter or the ethernet port.

2) The graphics are alright, but I would like to take full benefits of the graphics card I have. I installe the drivers for the ATI HD Radeon 46XX (I believe) running through the AGP port. Once I isntall the drivers, windows aero will work fine, but the minimize, restore and close buttons at the top right become all "scrambled" looking. Again I tried windows update and had no success.

Any ideas? I posted these issues in the same thread becuase for some reason I have a feeling that they are related in some sense and that once I have the solution to one, I would have the solution to the other.


Thanks for any help, let me know if you need anymore info!

MM

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Have you tried forcing windows updates?

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As in going into windows update and pressing "check for updates"? Then yes

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What about updating drivers via device manager?

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I uninstalled both and manually installed drivers

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You will have to go to your motherboard manufacturers website for the ethernet driver and the ATI website for your graphics driver then.

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I have already done that

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Would it be best to do a reinstall of win7?

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