windows 32 bit - nforce networking controller issue

sorry if you've seen this twice.. i didnt know where to put this thread.. but anyway.

hi hopefully someone can help me here. i am using windows vista home premium 32 bit.

a couple days ago, i installed one of the usual windows vista updates. one of them happened to be for the nvidia nforce networking device so i installed it. well after my computer restarted, my internet won't work anymore. i dont know what to do.. i cant system restore because for some reason it wont let me. i tried to go to the website to download drivers and it says that they are up to date. when i go to the network and sharing center and i click on "diagnose and repair" it says:
The network adapter "NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller" is experiencing driver or hardware issues.

when i look in the device manager it gives me this error:

"This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)"

so i dont know what to do.. can anyone help me with this?

Hi there Stillfoolish88,
How about trying a driver roll back? Go to Control Panel > System > Device Manger> right click on Nforce network card > properies > driver tab > roll back driver button. This is suppose to tell Windows to use the driver that you had prior to the windows updates.

Raj

I had the same issue. After a Windows Update: No Internet whatsoever, a dlink router didn't detect the computer, the connection icon appeared but it said limited connectivity, etc.

That computer uses DSL, called the ISP. Ping worked fine so it was not an ISP related issue.

I tried the advices offered here, some others on the web but nothing. Until I came with this page: NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller Driver

After dowloading the chipset driver file I went to Control Panel > System > Device Manger> right click on Nforce network card > properies > driver tab > Unistall driver

The network adapter dissapeared from the device manager. Then I extracted the chipset driver files and copied all the .dll files to c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows\system32\drivers

Restarted and voila! Internet brought from heaven.