Elite 8300 NIC Win 10

[jfarthing]

Hi all. As stated above I have a Elite 8300 CMT that has been upgraded to Win10 (long story).

But, I have ran into a problem.

The first question that I have is why are there two network adapters listed in device manager? The first is a Realtex PCI Gbe Family controller  and the second is a Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection. This has me a little confused as to why there would be two listed in the same tower computer.

But the bigger problem is I have no internet access.

I have been having no luck finding a driver for the Intel controller in Win10. Is there a compatible driver available?

Or I am stuck buying a network card for this box?

Thanks in advance for any answers,

Jim

[DGroves · Accepted solution]

is there a PCI-e network card installed? or perhaps a USB based network adapter?

Microsoft has win 10 82579LM drivers, download and extract using winzip/winRar and then manually install the driver using the have disk option

https://catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=82579LM

i have attached the driver file in zipped format to this post

Upgrading drivers for a pre-existing device

1. Open the Windows Device Manager.
2. In the Device Manager, locate the device you want to update.
3. Right-click the device and select Properties.
4. In the Properties window, click the Driver tab.
5. Click the Update Driver button.
6. In the Hardware Update Wizard, point Windows to the location of the updated driver files on your hard drive.

Once drivers are installed, reboot the computer.

Install a driver using a .inf file

Finally, if the recommendations above don't work, you can locate the installation instructions for drivers and hardware devices in its .inf file.

1. Locate the .inf file for your version of Windows.
2. Right-click that file and choose Install from the drop-down menu.
3. Follow the prompts to complete the installation.
4. Restart the computer.