Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_0C7B105B&REV_01 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC driver. The archive contains version 5.708.1030.2008 released on 2008-10-30 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please confirm the installation 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 pretty 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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Driver file size: 137531 bytes (134.31 KB)
Driver rating 5 stars out of 7380 votes.
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 use DriverMax to install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC driver

The most important 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 easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~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 driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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