What's a "Realtek LAN Preinstall driver"?

[MarkR1888]

I’m trying to install a LAN driver on a new Windows 11 PC.

My mobo lists two drivers for install:
Realtek LAN Preinstall driver
Realtek LAN Driver
Gigabyte Drivers page:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard...-dl-driver-lan

My intention was to install the “Preinstall” Driver first, but there’s no setup file. Just a folder named “mb_driver_preinstall_realtek8125bg” with these three files:
rt25cx21x64.cat
rt25cx21x64.inf
rt25cx21x64.sys

The other non-preinstall driver is an executable which I haven’t yet run because I think I’m supposed to do something with the pre-install driver first.

How do I install the Pre-install driver?

[Bruce]

Skip the preinstall driver and just load the LAN driver - should be all the component needs. (y)

[Bruce]

@MarkR1888 - any news?

[Bruce]

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