MSI motherboard driver help

[MAU5]

So Im currently looking to switch from wireless to an ethernet but no connection is detected for my ethernet only my wireless, I have a feeling its driver related but I cannot seem to be able to find the driver for it! My motherboard is a Z87-G45 MSI motherboard, running windows 7 64 bit. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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On-Board LAN Drivers
Win8.1 32, Win8.1 64, Win7 32, Win7 64

Killer Network Driver

{BAĞLANTI SİLİNDİ}http://us.msi.com/support/mb/Z87-G45-GAMING.html#down-driver&Win7 64

[MAU5]

İlk olarak green tarafından gönderildi:

On-Board LAN Drivers
Win8.1 32, Win8.1 64, Win7 32, Win7 64

Killer Network Driver

http://us.msi.com/support/mb/Z87-G45-GAMING.html#down-driver&Win7 64

I saw these but was unsure, thank you though.

On-Board SATA AHCI/RAID Drivers where also on that page, do you recommend me installing them too?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Are you on a clean OS install?
Or did u never go through and download + Install the drivers from MSI for your model of motherboard? You need them all.

[Wrong Way Up]

http://uk.msi.com/support/mb/Z87-G45-GAMING.html#down-bios
install what you need

[MAU5]

Installed the Killer LAN suite and ethernet is now working. Cannot however uninstall the suite and keep the ethernet drivers -_- So now Im stuck with a rubbish ethernet suite that I will never use.... Qualcomm suck.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

What is it exactly you wish to Uninstall?

MSI provides two "Killer LAN Drivers"
one that is just the bare OEM driver
and one with Driver + Software Suite

[MAU5]

İlk olarak Bad-Motha tarafından gönderildi:

What is it exactly you wish to Uninstall?

MSI provides two "Killer LAN Drivers"
one that is just the bare OEM driver
and one with Driver + Software Suite

Yep, I downloaded the OEM Driver but no installer came with it, so I go to manually install it but the NIC isnt there in my network devices, so I install the suite and it appears in my network devices but I cannot change the drivers from the suite to the OEM :(

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I'm not familiar with the actual "Killer LAN software suite" though; what is the issue?
Is it bulky, or just like less in startup and want it out of there, or what?
More then likely you could just disable that software suite from coming up in starup via MSCONFIG, or another app that allows you to better control what all is in your startup, like CCleaner for example.

[MAU5]

İlk olarak Bad-Motha tarafından gönderildi:

I'm not familiar with the actual "Killer LAN software suite" though; what is the issue?
Is it bulky, or just like less in startup and want it out of there, or what?
More then likely you could just disable that software suite from coming up in starup via MSCONFIG, or another app that allows you to better control what all is in your startup, like CCleaner for example.

I've already used MSCONFIG to take it out of the startup applications, but thats just a quick fix. I just purely don't want it on my computer. Theirs an option for the pure drivers but MSI/Qualcomm make it pretty much impossible to use them!

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Uninstall the Killer LAN fully (Software + Driver) now that you have that installed, after rebooting the Killer LAN should show via Device Manager as some sort of Network and/or Unkown Device. Then from Device Manager you manually install the "Killer Lan - Driver Only" and that should do what you want.

[MAU5]

I tried that too but the device was gone!! :( Well, it was gone from the network devices, I'll try now! Lets hope it works! :D

[MAU5]

It didnt work, it completely removed the ethernet from the device manager list, and to add insult to injury, I cannot remove it from the start up applications. It just doesnt exist in that list, It appears in services so I disabled it in there too but it still comes back whenever I boot my computer.

[KTiger]

I know this is late response but anyway. I got MSI Z87-G43 Gaming (not G45) and is using Win7 64 bit. But I think it is the same install procedure.
What I did to install the "Killer Network Driver (driver only)" from was MSI website:
1. Download the "Killer Network Driver (driver only)" (and to be safe also download driver+software incase this do not work)
2. Unzip the zip-file to desktop. (for me it was the ke2200w7-x64 folder)
3. Uninstall Killer LAN Software from Control Panel -> Uninstall a program
4. Go back to control panel and find Device Manager
5. An there you will have list of all devices on your computer. Go to the "Network adapters" folder and right click on the yellow marked (exclaimation mark) device (hopefully) the right device. Then select "Update Driver Software..."
6. Choose to browse for your driver
7. Find it on your desktop -> ke2200w7-x64 and click OK
8. It hopefully will install your NIC driver.

If done incorrectly you probably going to not be able to download drivers from internet, because of no functional ethernet driver. Just a BIG caution!
I do not know if this works for G45 model, so plz be carefull.