ad-block

Advertising seems to be blocked by your browser.

The ads help us provide this software and web site to you for free.

Please support our project by allowing our site to show ads.



Realtek Realtek PCI GbE Family Controller driver download and installation


Realtek PCI GbE Family Controller is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8169&SUBSYS_08091558.

1. How to manually install Realtek Realtek PCI GbE Family Controller driver


  1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Realtek PCI GbE Family Controller driver. The archive contains version 8.079.0526.2020 dated 2020-05-26 of the driver.
  2.  
  3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
  4.  
  5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your PC and will install the right driver.
  6.  
  7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
  8.  
Realtek applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 733976 bytes (716.77 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.6 stars by 16196 users.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

  • 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 Realtek Realtek PCI GbE Family Controller driver


The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

  1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
  2.  
  3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you find the Realtek Realtek PCI GbE Family Controller driver. Click the Update button.
  4.  
  5. Finished installing the driver!
  6.  

Drivers