Updating "Network Adapters" completely kills my internet connection.

[Thesinister]

Hello people, what a lovely forum!

I'm using Windows 7 x64 ultimate - with the driver:
Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) FAMILY PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20)
From the year: "2008-02-26"
I'm using the mothercard: Gigabyte.

I've downloaded the latest driver from their support site, and brung me the exact same problem as the Device manager update did. I also tried to update from the device manager (which gave me the same driver ofcouse but from the year 2010). As soon as I replace the driver I'm currently using my network connection died and the cable in my computer is just blinking twice and then goes black for a couple of seconds and blink again etc.

I've tried to restart the router after installation, I've tried restarting the computer after installation same drill.

Additional information:
RAM: 4GB
Graphic: Radeon HD5750
Motherboard: Gigabyte MA77O-UD3

My internet runs perfectly, but when I'm in-game playing real-time FPS games my latency is usual around 30ms but suddenly it rises to 180 for a short period of time (I'm talking about 2-3 seconds) which can turn out to be a disaster while in-game.

Thanks / Thesinister

 

[Thesinister]

*Bump* No ideas?

 

[Nibiru2012]

Did you use the installation setup for the driver?

There is an option to just install the driver only or should be there.

Did you try restarting your computer after?

Try this link: http://218.210.127.131/downloads/do...C/RTL8111CP/RTL8111D(L)<br>RTL8168C/RTL8111DP

Here's the driver only as an attachment I uploaded.

 

[Thesinister]

Thank you for the response Niburu, I solved this by windows update.

 

[Nibiru2012]

Thank you for the response Niburu, I solved this by windows update.

Good that it worked for you.

Sometimes Windows Update will not have the latest up-to-date driver, but 95% of the time that will NOT cause any problems, especially with NIC, LAN or Wireless drivers published after 10-2009.