Wired networking issues.

[Timmyfox]

My friend is having problems with his new PC. Motherboard is an MSI H87-G43.

 

It's using a Realtek NIC on-board and with the latest Realtek driver it's painfully slow (less than 0.5mbit up/down).

With the latest drivers listed on the MSI website it works fine (30/40mbit up/down) using the same Ethernet cable. The catch however is that the driver doesn't seem to stick on boot meaning he will have to reinstall the driver every time he reboots for it to connect to the network.

 

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[YoYo155]

Your friend can use driver sweeper to remove any trace of the "bad" driver after he uninstalls it from the device manager then apply the "good" driver instead.

This time it should stick.

 

http://www.guru3d.com/content_page/guru3d_driver_sweeper.html

[Timmyfox]

Your friend can use driver sweeper to remove any trace of the "bad" driver after he uninstalls it from the device manager then apply the "good" driver instead.

This time it should stick.

 

http://www.guru3d.com/content_page/guru3d_driver_sweeper.html

Thing is, both drivers are bad.

 

They have both been tested (uninstall one and reinstall another) several times over. I'll try driver sweeper, but I highly doubt it'll make a difference since the results with each driver is very consistent each time you reinstall it.