Driver update broke my ethernet & question about upgrade

Ghot said:

Updating...

1. Do the Windows Updates the 2nd Tuesday of every month, but make a backup, first.
(Windows Update Tuesday is the 14th of this month. So tomorrow or Monday I'll make a fresh backup.)
2. Update vid card drivers only if needed... really needed.
3. Motherboard drivers... leave them alone unless absolutely needed.
4. The motherboard "chipset" drivers are the only ones I update regularly. And the latest version is always linked...
Win 10... https://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/
Win 11... Devices and Drivers | Windows 11 Forum



Now as for the BIOS.
With chain store computers like HP or DELL... etc., you pretty much have to do them when they tell you to.
For the rest of us with DIY computers... I update the BIOS about every 2-4 versions.

Before Win 11... we only flashed the BIOS about every 10 or so versions.
But, because of Win 11... they're making BIOS changes a lot faster. And some are even necessary.

WOW! It's amazing how neat you are! Wish I was that neat. You gave me ideas because of this. Thanks. I will come back to this to emulate it or how you say it. What backup do you use? I use EaseUS Todo Backup. I don't use windows own backup because it has failed so many times, so I am scared to use it. For me, it's not reliable, but EaseUs is! I really like the idea of using several partitions to have different things in it, like 1 is "Games", another "series" and so on. I also do partition but not that many, but now when seeing yours I thought it would be good idea making more.

Furthermore, I fixed my issue by doing in-place update, it worked!!