Driver for Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC - downloading and installing it

Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC is a Network Adapters device. This driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_3043103C; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver. The archive contains version 5.724.0423.2009 released on 2009-04-23 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through 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 PC 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 the manufacturer.
File size of the driver: 181142 bytes (176.90 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.3 stars by 21290 users.
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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you find the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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