Installing drivers from .bin file

[lazygood4notin]

I bought a couple of 10GbE cards that I'm going to be using with my PC and NAS server and I installed 1 of the cards into my PC and the card wasn't recognized by my PC and when I update the drivers through device manager Windows can't find any so I ended up finding the drivers online but when I downloaded them it came in a .bin file, what do I do? I'm using Windows 7 and the card is a   MELLANOX  MNPA19-XTR

[Guest]

When looking for drivers, you could search online, or find them yourself as a file. Usually with a "browse" button. Press that button, and "browse" to the .bin file, and the installation should go forward.

 

*NOTE: this is how things worked in windows XP, I really hope windows 7 didn't screw this good thing up.

[2FA]

I'm pretty sure you can execute a .bin file as it is meant to a be a straight binary file. Of course Windows doesn't actually care about file types in reality and determines what kind of file something is by the actual code/data it contains.

 

EDIT: Scratch that, you can't execute it but you should still be able to use it.

[lazygood4notin]

1 hour ago, Dutch-stoner said:

When looking for drivers, you could search online, or find them yourself as a file. Usually with a "browse" button. Press that button, and "browse" to the .bin file, and the installation should go forward.

 

*NOTE: this is how things worked in windows XP, I really hope windows 7 didn't screw this good thing up.

Tried this and this also didn't work, got a "Windows was unable to install your Ethernet Controller" message

[Guest]

Are the drivers compatible with your windows version?

[lazygood4notin]

On 3/14/2017 at 1:43 AM, Dutch-stoner said:

Are the drivers compatible with your windows version?

Ended up finding different drivers that were manually installed to my PC and it looks like that ended working, thanks though