Broadcom Corporation Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet is a Chipset hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Broadcom Corporation. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is pci/ven_14e4&dev_16a1&subsys_80491bcf.

1. How to manually install Broadcom Corporation Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Broadcom Corporation Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver. The archive contains version 7.10.10.00 released on 2014-07-22 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by Broadcom Corporation.
The file size of this driver is 2715793 bytes (2.59 MB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.7 stars by 89830 users.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. How to install Broadcom Corporation Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver using DriverMax

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Broadcom Corporation Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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