Download and install Intel Intel R I210 Gigabit Backplane Connection driver

Intel R I210 Gigabit Backplane Connection is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Intel. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_157C; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Intel Intel R I210 Gigabit Backplane Connection driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Intel Intel R I210 Gigabit Backplane Connection driver. The archive contains version 12.12.226.0 dated 2016-04-11 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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Intel applied a digital signature to this driver.
The file size of this driver is 431120 bytes (421.02 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.8 stars out of 47989 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Using DriverMax to install Intel Intel R I210 Gigabit Backplane Connection driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Intel Intel R I210 Gigabit Backplane Connection driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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