Onboard LAN driver question..

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Hi,
I've got an AsRock z77 extreme4 motherboard, with Broadcom onboard LAN,
and I'd like to know if i can use the drivers directly from Broadcom's site, or if i have to use the ones from the AsRock site for any reason ?

Reason i ask is the one from Broadcom is a newer version, but im confused, because the driver from the Brodcom site is only an .inf, .sys and .dat file, and the AsRock one is an exe installer ? im positive that the driver i located on the broadcom site is supposed to be for my LAN chip, just unsure if i can use it instead the mobo manufacturers version.


 
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Give a try, I used the ones direct from broadcom when I first got my EX4 and they worked fine, just put them in a folder, go into device manager open up the network adapter, tell it to update and point it to the folder, if any problems can always revert to the ones the Rock has
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Give a try, I used the ones direct from broadcom when I first got my EX4 and they worked fine, just put them in a folder, go into device manager open up the network adapter, tell it to update and point it to the folder, if any problems can always revert to the ones the Rock has
 
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nice.. thank you for the perfect answer :) ..I'll give it a try then.
I'm just paranoid because i've read that you always should use mobo manufacturer drivers for onboard audio because they sometimes change stuff in the drivers, and i couldn't find anything about LAN drivers.



 
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