Ethernet controller driver tries to install several times

Yea, you might try to live with it awhile (if you want) but be sure to keep your warranty window in mind!! (see if Windows 7 and/or driver updates help). Tho, of course, i can't be certain h/w isn't involved as well in addition to my software speculation above!

And glad to try and help!

Hello guys again!

I really couldn't sleep last night thinking about my Ethernet Driver's problem, i haven't contact Asus yet since if it is not a hardware problem but software then there must be a way to solve it. I was just thinking about the "MSCONFIG" tool from Windows, could there be an start up entry that is preventing or causing this Ethernet Controller Issue? perhaps windows is adding this start up entry automatically?

If so, here text file with my entry list:

http://jcroot.com/startup.txt

Hello guys!

I just wanted to follow this thread with a quick update regarding my Asus ethernet controller driver... finally i decided to send my laptop back to Asus with a detailed description of the problem... i got it back today and guess what? the sent me the laptop back without fixing the problem, they said the did all testing to my ethernet controller and they couldn't find any problem with it. Also what is worse is... they sent me a survey email saying:

I was just wondering what should i do now? perhaps they were not that curious to find the ethernet controller message?

jcroot, you are not alone! im using Asus UL80VT, and i have the EXACT same problem with you.
i've triend many times, and the installation keeps going, now im using "Local Area Connection 60" already....

^^. I have a same problem too.
I'm using ASUS G51J
Before i don't have this problem.
After I update BIOS fall. Then i have to send my laptop to ASUS support.
When my laptop return to me i got this problems.
If anybody can help me how to delete the:
Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) #1
Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) #2
Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) #3
Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) #....

I think that i can delete it from he registry but i dun know where i can delete it.

Hi all. I've been following this thread for some time now because I also have the same crap for some time now.

I've got the Asus N61V series and am using W7 Ultimate. All this what has been described before started about 12 months ago and I couldn't really be bothered about it.
However, since I needed a NAS drive mapped to the laptop and the the mapping would not complete, I found out that this very phenomenon was causing the malfunction.

So I cleaned up about 260 instances of the ghost device in the device manager and got rid of all the drivers and entries again.
Mapped the NAS drive nicely and even the cardreader from my Wifi HP printer started to show up again.

Having that said, offcourse this Atheros AR8131 PCI-E... blah blah started to install again after every bootup.

I know it's a old thread but maybe someone has a really good tip to try because It's so annoying to clean up the ghost devices all the time.

The laptop was in service with Asus before but only to replace a faulty HD so all this started after that.


Anyone has a golden tip?

Download latest networking driver package but do not install.
uninstall current network driver package from add/remove programs; if not found, under device manager; reboot
after reboot, install latest networking driver package and reboot if prompted.

for Asus N61V,download appropriate driver here:
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Multimedia_Entertainment/N61Vg/#download

for Asus UL30VT-A1, download appropriate driver here:
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Superior_Mobility/UL30Vt/#download

Thanks but that procedure unfortunately does not help. The problem stays the same.