troubleshoot Accidental network driver uninstall

[Dawis101]

Hey, 

Before I start, I just want you to know im absolutely new here on the forum. I chose this forum, because I dont know any other forums that is popular enough to help me with my problem ASAP. 

 

So it begins when I bought an ethernet cable and decided to replace my old one. (I dont even know why I replaced it, the old one worked fine, the new one looked just so good) I replaced the cable and my internet didnt work, then I got frustrated so I put back my old one. But this time the old one didnt work either.

Soon I found out it was because of my router somehow, so I replaced the router with a new one, informed the ISP provider etc. Internet finally worked, but not as usual. My speed was about 10mb/s (usualy was around 100mb/s). I got annoyed, because at that speed I cant download anything big, it would take forever! So I called IT support and they told me that either my network driver doesnt work correctly or I broke the LAN port of the motherboard behind my PC, when I was assuring that i plugged the cable well (it shouldnt be this problem, I swear I didnt put a lot of force to it) So I hoped it was the problem with my driver. So I went to device manager then to network adapters and uninstalled the driver. Why, you ask? Well I thought when I uninstall it, it will automatically install again, but it did not. Did troubleshoot and it said it couldnt find a driver. The driver in device manager completely dissappeared. And this is the point, where Im basically right now. 

 

Solutions I tried, but didnt help:

Installing it manually

Resetting the network

Went back to the restore point before I uninstalled the driver

Reseted the whole windows to base settings(but not reinstalled the windows and I refuse reinstall it, I would have to install everything again from the beginning)

Also after all these solutions I tried, I looked into the device manager. Now there isnt even Network Adapters section. 

 

Driver that I uninstalled:

RealTek PCIe gbe family controller

 

My PC components:

HDD: Seagate 1TB

SSD: Kingston 100GB

Motherboard: Asus Prime B250-PLUS

Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

CPU: Intel core I5-7500

PSU: 700W

Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit

 

My other drivers are up to date, and if not, those drivers shouldnt be so old. 

[ShadowChaser]

so you can't access the internet from that system?

Grab a different system if you have one or borrow a friend's, download the driver, save it to a flash drive, bring it back to your system and install it.

The ethernet driver for that board is on Asus's website