again...no dice. there is indeed a yellow exclamation mark on the Ethernet controller in device manager( which by the way is listed under "other devices" with a ? icon on it FYI ) but when i right click it and  search for drivers it searches the computer and finds Nada. I tried removing(uninstalling) the Ethernet controller and restarting the comp. when it first came on the windows action notifier said installing device driver in a bubble for a few seconds. That bubble was then replaced by a "driver did not install correctly" bubble when i clicked it to see why it said "no driver found". so apparently the vanilla driver for the Ethernet is also missing or it's the incorrect one. Then I tried the BROADCOM_57XX-GIGABIT-CONTRO_A07_R296615 installation and guess what? same problem as before, it reaches the install status window, no install progress action happens then a few moments later, fails and says "install shield wizard completed, the wizard was interupted before boradcom netxtreme-I netlink driver and management installer could be completely installed , your system has not been modified. to complete  installation at another time,please run setup again,click finish to exit the wizard"  any other ideas, tell me should I just stop lighting candles in a typhoon and get a NIC for the dell optiplex? I'd perfer if that would be the last resort but well.. it looks like were are running out of 2nd and 3rd resorts. Regards, Ghosthunter4hire
good day fellow techy's I am having an issue involving installing a driver for a Broadcom BCM57780 Gigabit network interface card I recently reinstalled the os (windows 7 ultimate 64bit)  and had to reinstall the drivers. I lost the drivers and utilities disk but  got the driver of the dell website. when I use it it get to the part that the driver installation progress bar appears there is no activity and then the install wizard crashes. before this problem began i had to activiate the microsoft SNMP service which I did and yet the problem I recently mentioned remains.   any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. I am fixing this computer for a freind and dont want let her down.   regards, ghosthunter4hire oh and by the way the driver in question can be found here : [URL] remember, windows 7 64, optiplex 380, and its the first one in the network options  
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