Vista - No Network Adapters installed

"Windows does not detect any network adapters "
Device Manager does not show a network adapter on the list.
The motherboard drivers for the onboard network adapters will not install on Vista x64
A Linksys EG1032 network card will not install using Vista x64
Both the EVGA website and Linksys website's latest drivers will not install on Vista x64
An identical computer running Vista 32 bit has no problem getting online
Is there a hotfix for this or do I need to buy a 64bit network card?

What else in your device manager is not working? Usually if a network adapter is not working in x64, many other motherboard features are not working. I would recommend going back to 32-bit, if the other identical computer is working.

There is nothing else not working... no yellow flags anywhere everything on the motherboard works excellent. Just doesn't see any network adapters.. however upon installing the linksys card it appears but doesn't show any card connection.

but here's a good one.. just for kicks i did a virus scan and guess what popped up ... a Trojan ... so how does a computer that can't get online get infected?

me thinks dis machine is playing games vith me!!

I'm going to go buy a network card that is 64 bit compatible and see what happens D-Link i read has one probably a pci-e card.

I took your advice and reloaded the 32 bit version. No dice , same thing, device manager shows no network devices and any attempt to connect says no network devices installed. NVIDIA download of latest drivers doesn't help. in fact Windows won't even let me load the drivers from the CD that came with the mainboard.

This computer I am on is using NVIDA nForce Networking controller ver 67.7.2.0
The one that comes on the CD is ver 50.1 something ... obviously older and the one they offer now which is Digitally signed is 68.2 something and loads fine but does not install a network controller. Vista refuses to let me load any of the previous drivers.

So I dismantled that machine..... Vista wins.

end of story.... have a nice day !

Did you install the chipset drivers for the motherboard?

Vista would not let me install the chipset drivers. The installation CD link to install the motherboard drivers just endlessly clicked, nothing happened. All the other stuff including ntune software on the CD loaded fine.

When the EVGA 590SLI motherboard was current technology two years ago I bought 2.The first one went into the computer I am on now, using Windows Vista Ultimate that I purchased at the same time as the boards..... two years ago. The second motherboard sat on the shelf till recently. The Vista Ultimate I was trying to install is current as of one month ago.

Is it possible that the time / technology factor might have been the cause of this aborted installation's problem ?

Did you try from the administrator account with UAC disabled?

Yup ... force fed it the driver and it just yellow flagged it and still wouldn't work, but it showed up in the device manager finally!!

Update: same computer only this time I used a Western Digital SATA Raptor, 10K rpm, 150GB hard drive and a fresh install of Windows XP Pro 32 bit and it works just fine. . .

now if I could just get my hands on a 64 bit version of XP. . . . . .

Yes , I basically force fed it the drivers and all it did was yellow flag them, but I could see a "Network Controller" in the device manager finally.

I would go get a $20 NIC that supports your OS and put it in for now. I had to do that with Redhat Fedora 7.