Yes it will have to be before any other hardware can be installed.
After you've installed the mb drivers from the mb driver cd install the nic
drivers first so that you can get to the internet and go search other hardware
drivers and take it from there.
Marc Sims
Data Technician I
Prince George's Community College
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, December 07, 2005 >>>
The mb chipset driver HAS to be installed *first*, before any
NIC or usb drivers are installed.
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Marc Sims wrote:
> ...
> For the usb devices most in device manager may read USB hub
> controller or PCI to USB 2.0 bridge controller you'd right
> click on that item and click update driver. As for NIC it may
> read brandnme Ethernet controller and do the same for that
> device as well. If you don't have the CD or software
> avaliable for it use another computer that has access to the
> internet download the proper drivers and burn it to CD.
> ...
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