Realtek Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8136&SUBSYS_1849103C&REV_05; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Realtek Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller driver. The archive contains version 7.122.0828.2018 released on 2018-08-28 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 (UAC) is enabled please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes 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 by Realtek.
Size of this driver: 738324 bytes (721.02 KB)
Driver rating 4.2 stars out of 65476 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• 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. Installing the Realtek Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Realtek Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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