Cavium, Inc. QLogic FastLinQ QL45000 Series 40GbE Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

QLogic FastLinQ QL45000 Series 40GbE Controller is a Chipset device. The developer of this driver was Cavium, Inc.. pci/ven_1077&dev_1634 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Cavium, Inc. QLogic FastLinQ QL45000 Series 40GbE Controller driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Cavium, Inc. QLogic FastLinQ QL45000 Series 40GbE Controller driver. The archive contains version 8.42.10.0 released on 2019-09-25 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is running please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and 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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This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
File size of the driver: 1078578 bytes (1.03 MB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.9 stars by 84401 users.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Cavium, Inc. QLogic FastLinQ QL45000 Series 40GbE Controller driver

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

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Cavium, Inc. QLogic FastLinQ QL45000 Series 40GbE Controller driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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