Does Ethernet Controller need Driver installation
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Topic: Does Ethernet Controller need Driver installation
Posted By: Aristoc
Subject: Does Ethernet Controller need Driver installation
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2016 at 11:28am
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My internet is working properly. I noticed the following in my device manager. What is the driver I need? Thanks. Ethernet Controller ! Unknown Device ! 
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Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2016 at 10:06pm
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If this is on the X99M Killer you've been posting of ........... Your board has two NICs. The Intel I218V and a Killer E2200. Juding by the pics you still need to install both sets of drivers. For the I218V you'll find the most current drivers are at https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/71305/Intel-Ethernet-Connection-I218-V" rel="nofollow - https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/71305/Intel-Ethernet-Connection-I218-V For the E2200 you'll find the most current drivers are at http://www.killernetworking.com/driver-downloads" rel="nofollow - http://www.killernetworking.com/driver-downloads |
Posted By: parsec
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2016 at 10:26pm
That's no doubt the E2200 Atheros network controller, that the generic Microsoft network driver would not work with. Lucky you, you connected your router to the Intel network port! ------------- http://valid.x86.fr/48rujh" rel="nofollow"> 
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Aristoc wrote:Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2016 at 11:24pm
At least I'm hoping so. They didn't expand "Network Adapters" so we could have look see at what's listed there. |
Posted By: Aristoc
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2016 at 6:48am
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E2200 driver was installed and successfull. Thank you. Still one other left? https://postimg.org/image/9yobjmfy3/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2016 at 6:55am
This pic, click on the Details tab, then in the drop down click on Hardware Ids, then copy and past here what is displayed for the ID's. |
Posted By: Aristoc
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2016 at 7:39am
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Posted By: Aristoc
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2016 at 9:03am
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I looked up the codes you refered to and found that it was the Intel Turbo Boost Max 3 . I installed successfully and the problems gone. Thank you!!
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Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2016 at 9:42am
 You're Welcome.That's all there is to that. I know most of those by heart. Glad to read your system is running as it should. |
Posted By: parsec
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2016 at 12:03pm
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What problem is now gone? Simply the missing driver? Do you know the purpose of Turbo Boost Max 3? ------------- http://valid.x86.fr/48rujh" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Aristoc
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2016 at 8:32pm
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I didn't' mean to say there was some problem with the function of my PC. The only 'problem' was the "!" exclamation in device driver and I didn't have any knowledge about what that was for. Once I received info above on how to search for that, I discovered it is only related to Turbo Boost Max. Once I installed TBM the "!" disappeared. Turbo Boost Max probably isn't going to be used for many of my programs. Maybe for video rendering. Booting up time is so fast so fast ! Running smoothly. Thank you to all on the forum for assistance on my build!
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Posted By: parsec
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2016 at 11:27pm
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We are glad to help! Boot time is fast? Great, but most X99 board users complain about the slow start up time. That is normal for X99 systems. They are more complex than other mother boards, and the X99 chipset is borrowed from Intel's enterprise line of chipsets. Turbo Boost Max 3.0 is a feature only found on Broadwell-E HEDT processors, like yours. When its driver is installed, you should see an icon for it on the Windows taskbar. If you click on it, a window will open that shows a list of the cores in your CPU. TBM 3.0 somehow determines which cores are "stronger" and able to Turbo boost (Turbo 2.0, the standard type of Turbo) higher with greater stability than the other cores. The cores are listed in the order of best to worst core for higher OC Turbo boost levels. You can use that window to assign programs to use the best cores at higher speeds, or by default it assigns those cores to the "foreground" program, whatever program you are interacting with. Kind of an odd feature, and who wants to know their CPU has "better" cores than the others? We hope they are all of the same quality. The implication of this feature is using a "Per Core" OC may be better than an All Core OC for Broadwell processors. That is, instead of all the cores at a maximum speed that is limited by one or more of the lesser cores, we can have a higher OC on some cores than a few of the others. I don't know if anyone has tested that theory, I keep forgetting to do that with my X99/Broadwell-E system. ------------- http://valid.x86.fr/48rujh" rel="nofollow">
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