What is PCI bus driver?

What is a PCI driver? Peripheral Component Interconnect, a.k.a (PCI), is a piece of hardware that connects to your computer’s motherboard. The correct driver update helps keep the hardware devices of your PC running smoothly.

Why PCI bus is needed?

A Peripheral Component Interconnect Bus (PCI bus) connects the CPU and expansion boards such as modem cards, network cards and sound cards. These expansion boards are normally plugged into expansion slots on the motherboard.

Do you need a PCI driver?

The way a computer works as a system involves a mix of both hardware devices and software. One example of this mix is a PCI hardware device, which like every other hardware connected to a Windows computer, needs a software driver to function – without this driver, the device will not function.

How do I update my PCI bus driver?

Update the device driver

  1. In the search box on the taskbar, enter device manager, then select Device Manager.
  2. Select a category to see names of devices, then right-click (or press and hold) the one you’d like to update.
  3. Select Search automatically for updated driver software.
  4. Select Update Driver.

How do I find my PCI drivers?

The computer’s PCI cards can be identified with a Windows tool called Device Manager, which comes preinstalled on new computers.

  1. Click the “>>” button in the taskbar while in Desktop view.
  2. Select “Control Panel” from the menu.
  3. Select “Device Manager” from the menu.

How do I manually update my PCI driver?

2. Manually Updating Driver via Device Manager

  1. Press Windows + X > Device Manager.
  2. Look for the Network adapter section.
  3. Select Realtek PCI GbE Family Controller > right click > Update driver.
  4. From the new window that opens click Search automatically for drivers and wait for the operation to perform.

How do I manually install Ethernet drivers?

How to Manually Install Adapters on Windows 7

  1. Insert the adapter onto your computer.
  2. Right click Computer, and then click Manage.
  3. Open Device Manager.
  4. Click Browse my computer for driver software.
  5. Click Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
  6. Highlight Show All Devices and click Next.
  7. Click Have Disk.