SOLVED: Intel Driver problems with WHS 2011

[dbocce3]

Hey everyone. I am freaking out right now. I just purchased the Intel DH61BEB3 and am using it with WHS 2011. I have installed the software and am now stuck at the last part of the installation process. The software says it cant install/find the network adapter drivers. In fact, the software can’t seem to find the network adapter at all.

 

Can anyone recommend how to fix this? I went to the intel page and downloaded the newest driver and it says that it cant find the network adapter. Someone PLEASE help me!

 

Thanks in advance!

[santanan]

did the installation complete without the NIC drivers?

[swoon]

Did you follow our guide for installing WHS on Intel Media Series boards?

[dbocce3]

Aaron,

Thank you for your response. I did not follow the guide. I have since tried to follow the guide but I get stuck at the command prompt step. I type in the command exactly as it is pictured in the example but I get the following response:

 

‘C:UsersAdministratorDesktopPROWin7_64_v16.2.exe’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

 

What am I doing wrong? It should be known that this is a fresh install. There is no other OS on the machine.

UPDATE: I went to Intel’s webpage and downloaded the newest driver which is PROWin7_64_v16.4exe. I put that on a USB stick, then dumped it onto the desktop. Now when I search for the driver manually like in the example, it can’t find it because it is an exe file, not an inf file. I believe SRR037 has the same issue int he comments of the example. Not sure how to fix it though.

 

Ideas?

[dbocce3]

I was able to figure it out by trolling through the other message boards and the guide. I had tp use 7-zip to extract out the driver from WINPro7_64_v16.4 exe, save them to a USB, dump it onto the desktop of the server, and then go and install from there.

 

Thank you to everyone for your help!

[swoon]

Glad to hear it. I’m going to be running through this myself soon so if our guide needs a little massaging, we’ll update it.

[swoon]

So I found that Andrew’s guide worked pretty well for installing the NIC driver. You can check my comment to the guide for exactly what I did, but I did not need to used 7zip to extract driver.

[Author]

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