Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II Ethernet Virtual Function - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II Ethernet Virtual Function is a Chipset hardware device. This driver was developed by Hewlett-Packard Company. pci/ven_14e4&dev_16ad is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II Ethernet Virtual Function driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II Ethernet Virtual Function driver. The archive contains version 7.8.25.00 dated 2013-07-13 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed.
Size of this driver: 2679269 bytes (2.56 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.2 stars out of 16876 votes.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. How to use DriverMax to install Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II Ethernet Virtual Function driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II Ethernet Virtual Function driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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