Hello!
So I have this NIC Intel 82579V and it is currently working kind of ”50%” since because I was unable to update the NIC’s drivers earlier, I tried then removing it manually but googling and searching the correct files to delete and also deleting the correct Registry entries.
Of course I tried first uninstalling the NIC altogether via the Device Manager, but it wouldn’t uninstall. Anyway for some reason uninstalling from Device Manager works now so I uninstalled it, rebooted my PC and then tried reinstalling the drivers (newest version) but it won’t install. I only get the following error when trying to install the drivers:
I have no idea what that means. So I had to restore my PC from backup in order to get my network working again.
Then I tried installing the newer drivers rawly on top of the existing installation and just got the same error. My network works anyway but there’s this thing that I did earlier when I tried to uninstall the NIC;
In Device Manager I selected “show hidden devices” and the under NETWORK hive I manually uninstalled everything that I could. That was the very first thing that I actually did, so all that I have written here became after that pathetic manual uninstallation.
Even if my network connection works but it doesn’t work 100%. You see, I have this Linux virtual machine installed on Oracle VirtualBox and I earlier had drivers, like “MAC miniport driver” or something like that under the NIC's driver list when I chose "show hidden devices" under Device Manager, and fully functional network communication between my Windows 7 host OS and the virtual Linux 7 OS requires that property of the NIC installation.
So::: how do I completely uninstall and get rid of the current Intel 82579V NIC?
I also have tried removing the Driver files from the PC so under Device Manager I opened NIC’s properties, opened the Drivers tab and there was a list of 5 files which supposedly are the driver files for the NIC. The picture of that Driver tab including the driver file list is below:
So after uninstalling the NIC in an orthodox way, I then found all those files above and manually deleted them and rebooted my PC. Then I tried again install the NIC drivers and I STILL got that same error which is the first picture in this post (error 1316…). So the NIC didn’t install again, and again had to restore my PC. I have also tried uninstalling all the hidden networking components via device manager by showing hidden devices, and I uninstalled all that I could but I couldn't even uninstall them all. So now my NIC is installed only half way because those hidden components that I uninstalled, are no longer present.
So how do I really get rid of this NIC completely? So that it kind of never were even installed in the first place. What files do I have to delete and what registry entries would I have to delete + is there some other additional maneuvers I have to do? I just want to be able to do a NIC fresh installing making sure that all the original and needed files etc. are present + that Registry is in order in context of the NIC.
And yes, one thing that I found by googling is that all the Windows 7’s drivers are located under the directory C:/windows/systems/driverstore. Somewhere there. But the files’ and folders’ names are so cryptic that I have no idea what to delete.
Can you help me completely get rid of my current NIC and do a fresh and complete reinstall of the Intel 82579V NIC on Windows 7 x64?
Thanks a lot in advance and thanks for your valuable work.
-Tommi
So I have this NIC Intel 82579V and it is currently working kind of ”50%” since because I was unable to update the NIC’s drivers earlier, I tried then removing it manually but googling and searching the correct files to delete and also deleting the correct Registry entries.
Of course I tried first uninstalling the NIC altogether via the Device Manager, but it wouldn’t uninstall. Anyway for some reason uninstalling from Device Manager works now so I uninstalled it, rebooted my PC and then tried reinstalling the drivers (newest version) but it won’t install. I only get the following error when trying to install the drivers:
I have no idea what that means. So I had to restore my PC from backup in order to get my network working again.
Then I tried installing the newer drivers rawly on top of the existing installation and just got the same error. My network works anyway but there’s this thing that I did earlier when I tried to uninstall the NIC;
In Device Manager I selected “show hidden devices” and the under NETWORK hive I manually uninstalled everything that I could. That was the very first thing that I actually did, so all that I have written here became after that pathetic manual uninstallation.
Even if my network connection works but it doesn’t work 100%. You see, I have this Linux virtual machine installed on Oracle VirtualBox and I earlier had drivers, like “MAC miniport driver” or something like that under the NIC's driver list when I chose "show hidden devices" under Device Manager, and fully functional network communication between my Windows 7 host OS and the virtual Linux 7 OS requires that property of the NIC installation.
So::: how do I completely uninstall and get rid of the current Intel 82579V NIC?
I also have tried removing the Driver files from the PC so under Device Manager I opened NIC’s properties, opened the Drivers tab and there was a list of 5 files which supposedly are the driver files for the NIC. The picture of that Driver tab including the driver file list is below:
So after uninstalling the NIC in an orthodox way, I then found all those files above and manually deleted them and rebooted my PC. Then I tried again install the NIC drivers and I STILL got that same error which is the first picture in this post (error 1316…). So the NIC didn’t install again, and again had to restore my PC. I have also tried uninstalling all the hidden networking components via device manager by showing hidden devices, and I uninstalled all that I could but I couldn't even uninstall them all. So now my NIC is installed only half way because those hidden components that I uninstalled, are no longer present.
So how do I really get rid of this NIC completely? So that it kind of never were even installed in the first place. What files do I have to delete and what registry entries would I have to delete + is there some other additional maneuvers I have to do? I just want to be able to do a NIC fresh installing making sure that all the original and needed files etc. are present + that Registry is in order in context of the NIC.
And yes, one thing that I found by googling is that all the Windows 7’s drivers are located under the directory C:/windows/systems/driverstore. Somewhere there. But the files’ and folders’ names are so cryptic that I have no idea what to delete.
Can you help me completely get rid of my current NIC and do a fresh and complete reinstall of the Intel 82579V NIC on Windows 7 x64?
Thanks a lot in advance and thanks for your valuable work.
-Tommi
