How do i reinstall device driver(code 28) without being connected to the internet?

Question

Hi

I wiped off vista from my acer desktop and installed windows XP home SP3,

the problem is now i cannot connect to the internet at all,

it will not reconize my Bt Hub and it only says 1394 connection, connected. i am also getting code 28 while trying to reinstall the driver(s) tells me i need an internet connection to reinstall.

is there any way to reinstall drivers without the internet???

any help would be great.

thanks

Kels.

Answer 1

You need to know what device needs its drivers installed.

If you know, you can find the cd or floppy which came with

the device and install them.   Moreover, if the device is a

network card which was preinstalled on your acer desktop

you may have a driver on your acer disk.  



After writing those general comments, I decided to search for BT Hub for I have not heard of the device.  

It seems a BT Hub is actually a wireless router.    You

need to know whether you used an eithernet cable, USB

cable or wireless connection to access the BT Hub

If you used eithernet or wireless, you are missing the

drivers for your network card and they would probably

be on an acer drivers disk, or available on acer's website.

If you have to obtain drivers from  a website, you will use

a second computer with working CD burner ,  or a USB

thumb drive to download the drivers and physically transport them from that computer to your own.    

If you have the driver  on a drivers CD which was included

with your computer, just load that one and find the driver, then install it.  

If you use USB to connect to your Hub, which is a frequent option on most routers, yours is a DSL modem router combination however and does have a USB connector.

If that is how you connected, you will need to get the drivers

from the company, probably British Telecommunications or your DSL provider.  If a disk came with the BT Hub you can install the USB driver from there.   If you don't have a disk, you will have to download the driver from a company's website to a CD or thumbdrive then install.  



By the way, 1394 is actually a firewire device.  It shows up as a network adapter but its usually used for transmitting

video from older movie cameras and for some storage devices.   Until USB 2.0 firewire was extremely fast but USB 2.0 has virtually displaced firewire.   You don't use it

for internet connections.

Answer 2

The easiest way to get your internet back with your BT Hub is to place the cd into the drive, don't worry abou the graphics that comes up.

then you need to go into device manager by clicking on Start---Control panel---System---then in System Properties--- click the Hardware--- Device Manager.

Check to see if any of your USB devices has a yellow mark or your LAN connection depnds on what you used to connect your BT Hub. If any of them got a yellow mark or looks different fron the other then Right Click on it and click Update Drivers. Then restart your PC. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

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