device driver

Vista has installed the wrong drivers for both my Wireless adapter and LAN NIC card. It works correctly with the wrong drivers but crashes / won't install the correct drivers. How can I fix this problem?

In the Device Manager, right click on the Device and select Update Driver Software. Select Browse my computer for driver software>Select Let me pick from a list>Select your Device type from the list>Select Have Disk>Select Browse>Point this to the CD or driver download for you device. Hope this helps. -- If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished!
"Caravan 1997" wrote:

Vista has installed the wrong drivers for both my Wireless adapter and LAN NIC card. It works correctly with the wrong drivers but crashes / won't install the correct drivers. How can I fix this problem?

When I do that the device crashes. Oddly it works fine with the wrong drivers, though.
"piranha1" wrote:

In the Device Manager, right click on the Device and select Update Driver Software. Select Browse my computer for driver software>Select Let me pick from a list>Select your Device type from the list>Select Have Disk>Select Browse>Point this to the CD or driver download for you device. Hope this helps. -- If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished!
"Caravan 1997" wrote:
Vista has installed the wrong drivers for both my Wireless adapter and LAN NIC card. It works correctly with the wrong drivers but crashes / won't install the correct drivers. How can I fix this problem?

If the wireless adapter and nic card are working fine, I would just wait until Vista drivers come out from the manufacturer. -- If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished!
"Caravan 1997" wrote:

When I do that the device crashes. Oddly it works fine with the wrong drivers, though.
"piranha1" wrote:
In the Device Manager, right click on the Device and select Update Driver Software. Select Browse my computer for driver software>Select Let me pick from a list>Select your Device type from the list>Select Have Disk>Select Browse>Point this to the CD or driver download for you device. Hope this helps. -- If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished!
"Caravan 1997" wrote:
Vista has installed the wrong drivers for both my Wireless adapter and LAN NIC card. It works correctly with the wrong drivers but crashes / won't install the correct drivers. How can I fix this problem?

Thats what I will probably have to do. Do the drivers from XP not work in Vista then? Usually I am more conserned about having the correct hardware than the correct OS.
"piranha1" wrote:

If the wireless adapter and nic card are working fine, I would just wait until Vista drivers come out from the manufacturer. -- If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished!
"Caravan 1997" wrote:
When I do that the device crashes. Oddly it works fine with the wrong drivers, though.
"piranha1" wrote:
In the Device Manager, right click on the Device and select Update Driver Software. Select Browse my computer for driver software>Select Let me pick from a list>Select your Device type from the list>Select Have Disk>Select Browse>Point this to the CD or driver download for you device. Hope this helps. -- If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished!
"Caravan 1997" wrote:
Vista has installed the wrong drivers for both my Wireless adapter and LAN NIC card. It works correctly with the wrong drivers but crashes / won't install the correct drivers. How can I fix this problem?

Then stick with the "wrong drivers" if it works. A correctly written "generic/wrong" Vista driver will be better than a "correct" XP driver that does not work on Vista...
"Caravan 1997" wrote in message

When I do that the device crashes. Oddly it works fine with the wrong drivers, though.
"piranha1" wrote:
In the Device Manager, right click on the Device and select Update Driver Software. Select Browse my computer for driver software>Select Let me pick from a list>Select your Device type from the list>Select Have Disk>Select Browse>Point this to the CD or driver download for you device. Hope this helps. -- If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished!
"Caravan 1997" wrote:
Vista has installed the wrong drivers for both my Wireless adapter and LAN NIC card. It works correctly with the wrong drivers but crashes / won't install the correct drivers. How can I fix this problem?

I guess I'm used to how XP works. In XP drivers from the wrong OS usually work better than gerneric drivers, but I guess not in Vista.
"Zapper" wrote:

Then stick with the "wrong drivers" if it works. A correctly written "generic/wrong" Vista driver will be better than a "correct" XP driver that does not work on Vista...
"Caravan 1997" wrote in message When I do that the device crashes. Oddly it works fine with the wrong drivers, though.
"piranha1" wrote:
In the Device Manager, right click on the Device and select Update Driver Software. Select Browse my computer for driver software>Select Let me pick from a list>Select your Device type from the list>Select Have Disk>Select Browse>Point this to the CD or driver download for you device. Hope this helps. -- If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished!
"Caravan 1997" wrote:
Vista has installed the wrong drivers for both my Wireless adapter and LAN NIC card. It works correctly with the wrong drivers but crashes / won't install the correct drivers. How can I fix this problem?

If both your Wireless and NIC are working correctly with the default drivers, I personally would feel very grateful and leave well alone. I have a Netgear GA311 NIC but the drivers Vista installed say Realtek RTL8169. This is because the chipset that Netgear use is made by Realtek, all Netgear do is solder the chips onto a circuit board.
Regards Mike "Caravan 1997" wrote in message

Vista has installed the wrong drivers for both my Wireless adapter and LAN NIC card. It works correctly with the wrong drivers but crashes / won't install the correct drivers. How can I fix this problem?