Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Preventing my Ethernet from Working?

[Ross_McD]

I turn my PC on today and have no access to the Internet because of the driver described in the title. In Device Manager status says Code 39, possible missing or corrupt files.

I've tried rebooting, I've tried disconnecting the power source for a couple minutes, and I've also uninstalled it from device manager, clicked "Scan changes to hard drive" (something similar) and it was all to no avail. When I manually download the Realtek drive I get another error mid download that prevents me from completing this process. The only other solutions I've seen have been to "refresh PC" which I tried doing, but that's never worked for as long as I've had Windows 10 installed, and it certainly did not work on this occasion.

I absolutely will not reinstall Windows 10 again, either. After about four months of having Windows 10 I had to reinstall it due to a critical update failure. This happened again a couple months later. Recently, I have a problem with Windows 10 failing to perform one action or another and it always get worse each time. Every time it results in deleting partitions from the PC and reinstalling everything, OS, drivers, personal files, audio, and other desk top apps. It is the most stressful thing I've had to deal with, and reinstalling windows again would make for about the 10th time in less than a year. I'm wondering if Windows 10 is actually a virus and not an operating system.

Can anyone assist me with my first issue, and if so give suggestions as to why Windows 10 is routinely failing to function properly on my PC? If not, I will at the very least delete Windows 10 permanently and try Windows 8.1 or 7, and I might throw out everything altogether and buy a brand new PC with OS already installed and ready to work.

UPDATE: I just had my PC off for a few hours and when I turned it on it probably took windows about 15 minutes to boot. It's almost as if Windows 10 has a lifespan of about two weeks and slowly starts decaying and gets worse and worse as it falls apart bit by bit.

 

[Ross_McD]

After reading through the threads I'm not exactly sure what to do. Should I try taking out the RAM sticks and putting them into a different slot?

 

[viveknayyar007]

After reading through the threads I'm not exactly sure what to do. Should I try taking out the RAM sticks and putting them into a different slot?

Yes please. Also, please try using one RAM stick at a time. This way you can identify which one is incompatible/faulty.

Cheers!!

 

[Ross_McD]

Okay I've put each RAM stick (one at a time) in every available slot (total of 4 slots, 1 black, 1 grey, 1 black, 1 grey) and every time it was the same result, blue screen, auto restart, ROM errors. I tried putting 1 RAM in a grey slot and 1 RAM in a black slot, both RAMs in black and both in grey. Everything ends with the same result.

UPDATE: I tried running chkdsk /r /f c: and apparently it replaced a bunch of bad clusters, but after file verification had been completed the unspecified error (unspecified error 766f6c756d652e63 470) occurred. Not sure if that can help in anyway, but I'm lost, frustrated, and increasingly impatient.

UPDATE 2: I reinstalled Windows. Again. And somehow I got it to work. The notable difference was that I kept a recovery partition, and deleted all other partitions. However, I will say that it looks like I've been taken to 'safe mode'? The icons and notifications seem to be much larger than normal, but I must say everything is running way faster than usual. Hopefully I can reinstall all my desktop apps without any faults for a while.

If, I should say "when", Windows 10 begins to fail again I will let you know. It could be tomorrow it could be a couple of weeks, but thank you so much for the responses, I realize this must have been tiring.