Network Connection not working with windows xp sp3 on mac pro

[Metalshopteach]

So I have a mac pro, sick machine, love it, and want to play some older games, such as half life 2 as the mac port glitces and sucks for me.

So here's my endeavors with Boot camp. Ran the partition and inserted my windows disk.... a note on that. I did not have a xp with SP2 or better so I made one using a program and "slipstreamed" SP3 into it.

I then installed xp. Had a problem thou. When it wanted to start windows for the first time it rebooted and then never went anywhere but a blank screen. I rebooted it manually and it dumped me into windows just fine. No sound, and many other drivers missing. It did not ask me for my Leopard disk like many said it would. So I inserted it and it installed all the missing drivers for me.

However, the network connection did not work. everything else save my numpad seems to work. I have no idea where to start. I have done everything I do on my PC Laptop set up to run fine within windows and the router. I even installed Bootcamp 2.1 as a post said it might be a problem there. IT did say it must be installed prior to SP3 but thats not really possible with my system due to it (SP3) installed with windows prior to reading about the 2.1. Please help, I need to connect so I can download files I need to run the games I wish to with this thing, otherwise I wouln't bother. Any ideas.

The router is a Dlink DIR-655 according to my router access page.
Mac info

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.25f4

Pretty much stock but with the nvidia card and extra 500 mb hard drive

Running OSX 10.5.7

 

[toolbox]

So it's just the nic then?

if you put in the leopard DVD that came with your mac pro. Go into device manager, right click on the problem hardware in question and go update driver

Select the advanced option and get it to search through the leopard dvd. If not i once had to google around for a drive for my Bosses MBP - He wanted to run vista and for some reason it would not install the isight

 

[Metalshopteach]

So it's just the nic then?

if you put in the leopard DVD that came with your mac pro. Go into device manager, right click on the problem hardware in question and go update driver

Select the advanced option and get it to search through the leopard dvd. If not i once had to google around for a drive for my Bosses MBP - He wanted to run vista and for some reason it would not install the isight

Tried pointing to the cd but couldn't find a better driver. I am at a loss here.

 

[toolbox]

Give that a shot

http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/03/5701/

I no it doesn't have mac pro there but those some of those models might share the same nic card as your mac pro

 

[Metalshopteach]

Problem solved, it was the router we think cause it kept assigning the wrong ip address.