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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Other D-Link Products => Topic started by: DonF on December 27, 2015, 06:17:26 AM

Title: DFE 550tx
Post by: DonF on December 27, 2015, 06:17:26 AM

Help, if at all possible.  My nephew dropped our tablet under the rear wheel of our car.  The poor thing died really ugly.  So I pulled a Dell Dimension 8100 off the storage shelf and took it from Win XP SP 3 to Win 10 Pro.  Now I cannot get to the network.  Win 10 can't find the controller or driver.    Next, I downloaded the driver and installed it and Win 10 threw-up again and said that there is a problem with the INF file.

Is there a driver for Win 10, I realize that the adapter is old school, but until the upgrade to Win 10 it worked just fine, so it is not a hardware issue.  Don

Title: Re: DFE 550tx
Post by: FurryNutz on December 27, 2015, 10:10:55 AM

Sorry, this unit hasn't been developed on for 15 years now. Went into EOL in 2009.  I recommend you get into a newer PCI NIC card for windows 10 at least.
http://support.dlink.com/ProductInfo.aspx?m=DFE-550TX (http://support.dlink.com/ProductInfo.aspx?m=DFE-550TX)

Title: Re: DFE 550tx
Post by: DonF on December 31, 2015, 06:41:37 AM

15 years old, no wonder it is at EOL!!  I got this about a year ago.

Can you recommend a better adapter with the D-Link product set?

Title: Re: DFE 550tx
Post by: FurryNutz on December 31, 2015, 12:01:14 PM

Not sure if D-Link makes wired LAN adapters anymore. I have had good luck with Broadcom, Realtek and Intel adapters in the past. I'd get into Gb adapters at least. There not expensive.