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Forcing Windows to use a driver

 
 
Frosty Madness
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      09-08-2005, 10:21 AM
I have a NIC driver problem.

I have an AMD 64 based system on which I want to run Windows Server 2003. On
the 32 bit version of the OS, Windows doesn't recognise the NIC and I
install the driver from the manufacturers disk, all is well. If I use
Windows Update to update the driver (VIA Gigabit - Rhine) it breaks. But
simply avoiding this update is fine.

The 64 bit version however, recognises the card and installs the (faulty)
driver. I can't install the driver from the manufacturer because windows
tells me it can't find a driver that's a better match for my hardware, so
I'm stuck with no network.

Is there a way to force Windows to use a driver that I specify rather than a
driver that *it* specifies?

Frosty


 
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