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Driver conflict between realtek devices?
I have recently bought an ASUS PCE-AC51 PCIe WiFi card which works completely fine, until rebooting a few times. Then the device either won't get detected anymore (disappears in device manager) or causes blue screens referring to the drivers, OR even cause it to give Error Code 12 in Device Manager (having "not enough free resources").
The funny thing is, the drivers from this card are from Realtek, but the onboard Ethernet drivers are also from Realtek. Could it be that there are driver conflicts between these 2? Because frankly in prebuilts I have always seen WiFi and Ethernet drivers to be from 2 different manufacturers (eg. Qualcomm Ethernet and Ralink WiFi)
So far, I have not tested the WiFi card in a motherboard with a non-Realtek Ethernet chip, but does all of this mean there is in fact a driver conflict because it's 2 times the same manufacturer, or is the card simply defective? Anyone else having similar issues?
PS: Updating BIOS didn't work and drivers are taken from manufacturer's websites.
Boards I'm talking about: AsRock A320M and eMachines ET1870, both having Realtek GBE Family controller as ethernet.
EDIT: I have another board with Qualcomm Atheros ethernet drivers, but I couldn't test the wifi card on there yet. If it works flawlessly it should prove my point, right?