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I have an ECS GeForce6100PM-M2 v.30 motherboard which I bought 2nd hand. The vendor did not provide any drivers as he said it was plug and play. I downloaded the drivers on the main website of ECS and looked for the model of my motherboard and chose the correct OS. (Windows 7 64bit).

I downloaded all drivers except BIOS updates and installed them, restarted and reconnected my Ethernet cable at the back, but still no access to the Internet?

I tried the troubleshoot action in Windows and it says it has some driver problems.

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  • Please clarify what you mean with 'there is still no internet'. Does the NIC get recognised (if not it is indeed a driver problem), or it it recognized just fine but is it not yet configured for your LAN? etc etc.
    – Hennes
    Commented Oct 4, 2014 at 13:08
  • Also, as to regards to the title of your question (and ignoring everything in the body): No, there is no single universal driver for all motherboards. There are drivers for a whole range of devices, but there is nothing which works with everything ever produced.
    – Hennes
    Commented Oct 4, 2014 at 13:13
  • yes the nic is recognized but when i connect it to the ethernet port still no internet. and when I troubleshoot problem in windows it says it is a problem with the drivers. I downloaded all drivers on their website on my mobo and correct OS.
    – Rc Cnls
    Commented Oct 4, 2014 at 13:15
  • Please go to [start] [run] and start demmgmt.msc. (i.sstatic.net/vNH5u.png). Then report the state of the NIC in your post. That one should show up fine (e.g. no yellow exclamation mark). Next start a shell ([start] [run] cmd) and run ipconfig or ipconfig /all. Copy that information (right click in cmd, select copy and then select with the mouse). Add that the the post using the edit link. You might want to put that between a <pre> and a </pre> or add four spaces in front of every line.
    – Hennes
    Commented Oct 4, 2014 at 13:46
  • (A universal network driver! wouldn't that be heaven dreams - and maybe graphics drivers too)
    – Michael B
    Commented Aug 20, 2015 at 12:40

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Hennes is correct - there is no one driver for every single motherboard.

As for your particular driver, you can try a vendor search using PCI Database. You can find your driver details in Device Manager (right-click on device > Properties).

I did this for my server because the hardware is very old and it worked.

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