Network Adapter Driver Copy from old install

[Squish4058]

So I have an old hard drive that I used to use as my main boot device from 2 year ago, has windows 7 on it, and ive been using it for the last 3 days and its worked fine
2 Years ago I purchased an 850 pro, and put it in this desktop, it worked fine until about 2 months ago, at which point we got a new wireless router, it works fine with every other PC on the network, except mine. Random disconnects on both my Ethernet and wifi cards, random wireless networks dissapearing and random "local only" and "no internet connection" errors that cannot be solved with an adapter reset, nor a driver reinstall or rollback. I thought surely it must be the router, i reset the thing on a daily basis for about a week and gave up. It must be my PC, why else does every other computer work fine.

When having these problems I would even reboot the PC, it would work for 1 minute, letting me load a single page before both wifi and ethernet would then show "no internet connection" even tho still connected. So weeks later of random disconnections and 1h dropouts I format the SSD, install a freash install of windows 10 and DID NOT install any network drivers. I let windows 10 do that. It broke after 3 days, same issues. I go to the TP link website, download wireless drivers and download the ethernet drivers too, same issues.
I then waited a week checking more things, formatting the SSD a second time and installing windows 7 cleanly. Installed the drivers from their respective websites. Same issues. I am at a loss now seriously.

So here I am, 2 months down of network issues, but yesterday I have the wonderful idea to try the old hard drive that I cloned onto the SSD, and since then ive been using my old hard drive (the 850 pro ssd sits in my pc formatted doing nothing) and im on my second day of using my old hard drive windows install with NO Network Issues.
 

1 small issue exists, this old HDD install is like 3 years old. filled with programs that I dont need. Now I could go uninstalling everything I dont need, and clone it again but I would rather not. As uninstallers dont always remove everything and there is a lot of stuff on here I dont need like the registry is probably gone to hell and other things.

To the point.and to sum up
Ive tried fresh installs, with and without official drivers on my SSD. does NOT work

this old hard drive I have, and am currently using DOES work
How does one copy drivers from this old install into a fresh windows 10 or 7 installation, is it as simple as going into device manager>update driver>select location and point to this old HDD>windows>driver and driverstore?

 

Also does anyone have any other ideas other than driver issues as to why the hell this old install of windows works but the new one does not get an internet connection no matter what I do

 

[GzeroD]

do you have the model numbers for the networking devices you are using? I have had similar issues in the past using the vendor drivers for non-intel networking drivers. So I prefer to get the generic drivers from the people who make the controller chips for the cards. (usually realtek or atheros) 

[Squish4058]

1 minute ago, GzeroD said:

do you have the model numbers for the networking devices you are using? I have had similar issues in the past using the vendor drivers for non-intel networking drivers. So I prefer to get the generic drivers from the people who make the controller chips for the cards. (usually realtek or atheros) 

Ethernet is the one thats on an "asrock Pro4-m Z77" motherboard
Wifi is TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 N900 (at least I think, its the only tp link wireless pcie card that has 3 attenas)

So how do you find out what controller chips they use?

[GzeroD]

Generally, I find the drivers by searching the device name + chipset or the device name and Linux driver Because the vendor driver is so often the only one available for Linux  they usually have the information on hand.

 

the WIFI card looks to be AR9380

https://www.atheros-drivers.com/download-driver-for-Atheros-chipset-with-id-65-and-Windows10-64bit.html

 

and the onboard lan is  Realtek RTL8111E

http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Langid=1&Level=5&PFid=5&PNid=13

 

While searching for the drivers for your onboard LAN I found some users complaining that their networking drivers would not work properly with some antivirus software installed. 

 

anyway before you install the new drivers you should uninstall the current ones and be sure to select the "delete the current driver option" when doing so.

[Squish4058]

On 8/17/2016 at 11:32 PM, GzeroD said:

Generally, I find the drivers by searching the device name + chipset or the device name and Linux driver Because the vendor driver is so often the only one available for Linux  they usually have the information on hand.

 

the WIFI card looks to be AR9380

https://www.atheros-drivers.com/download-driver-for-Atheros-chipset-with-id-65-and-Windows10-64bit.html

 

and the onboard lan is  Realtek RTL8111E

http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Langid=1&Level=5&PFid=5&PNid=13

 

While searching for the drivers for your onboard LAN I found some users complaining that their networking drivers would not work properly with some antivirus software installed. 

 

anyway before you install the new drivers you should uninstall the current ones and be sure to select the "delete the current driver option" when doing so.

So firstly I dont use any anti virus and even disabled windows defender

also I could not find any "delete the current driver" options anywhere, maybe I am doing it wrong?

 

I opened device manager, unisntalled ethernet driver, scanned for new hardware, clicked update on ethernet adapter, and selected the folder. It said it updated it, it worked for a day. Now windows 10 thinks its connected and working fine, but in actual fact every 20s it stops working for a solid 10s or longer. Pages simply take up to a minute to load, even google.

I did the same with the wifi card except it said "the best driver is already installed" no matter what I did. The wifi card shows some networks, I ask it to connect to one. Suddenly "no wifi networks are available"

 

So yeah that was all on a fresh windows 10 install on my ssd. Im back on my old slow hard drive for now.

Edit, the front audio jack seems to not work on this old HDD install in which the network does work. wtf is going on D:

[Squish4058]

Reporting back, it was all fine for a few weeks but now the exact same thing has happened, this time I had the two mentioned adapters and a USB wifi adapter and all three said connected with internet but actually showed nothing on page loading or steam.

This time my brother said he was having issues too so I will play around with the router and report back

update, so tethering my phone over USB and connecting said phone to thw exact same wifi WORKS. what the actual fuck is going on