Hello everyone! I have to buy an Ethernet card to install obviously, and have one in mind, but I am unsure if it is Plug-and-Play compatible.... I NEED a plug and play card, becuase I tend to GET in trouble with drivers... lol      The product description says that it is Plug and Play compatible, but yet, it says that the drivers are on a CD ROM.... Why are they on the CD ROM if it is Plug and Play?  Here is a link to the product... http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=301595&pfp=BROWSE ...

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Plug and Play doesn't mean that you won't need to install drivers, it just means that the device will announce itself to the computer/OS with enough information that you can install the correct driver.

Trust me, it is much, much better when the card says "Hey, here I am, and I am a DFE-530TX+ 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter" then when it isn't seen at all until you install drivers and configure it through it's own command line interface.

The card you have picked out should cause you no problems at all, but it may take you upwards of 3 minutes to install it, including opening the case, seating the card, and closing the case.I see, but I was under the impression that the drivers would install themselves... No?  

[glb]Flame[/glb]windows XP has the drivers for quite a lot of devices. Those are the true plug and play devices. however gussery is right. it would take no time at all to install the drivers. *censored* you could just use the windows wizard. If it is truely plug and play then the drivers on the DISK are for windows 95/98Sometimes they will because Windows has them, sometimes the card with tell the OS where to find the drivers on the CD.  It's all so automated now that it isn't even fun anymore.

Sure do miss the days of excluding RAM addresses so that drivers could load and resolving IRQ conflicts  
!! NOT !!Oh, and less I forget loading everything inside the first 640K of RAM..........

Oh where or where did my memmaker go..............

lol ok. Well, thamks guys! I'll see what happens...  

[glb]Flame[/glb]Flame:
You said you had no slots available for an ethernet card.  What happened?

Gussery:
QEMM was my CHOICE.  Remember Stacker?Ah yes...............  The good old days.................

I do remember them both.  I also remember that my employer at the time was too cheap to spend the $20.00 or WHATEVER for QEMM........Since the IT department only worked with Macs, they didn't care as long as the cost didn't come out of their budget.  I ended up being the defacto IT for PC's.When did I say that I had no open slot?

[glb]Flame[/glb]Many months ago.  Have you forgotten already?
You recently asked for USB to ethernet adapters.  I thought you were going to buy one of those.Right... But my CONCERN was that I did not want the desktop to be wireless... I also had no Ethernet port... And I was not sure if I had any open slots.... Are you sure? Maybe USB was the issue?

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