Device Manager not showing correct driver version?

[CloudGray]

This is for an ASRock Z77 Extreme 4, the driver in question was obtained here.

Used the installation wizard for (Windows 8.1 64bit) Broadcom Lan driver ver:16.2.4.1 (dated: 10/30/2013). The wizard said it was successful, but Device Manager is showing driver 15.6.0.10 from 7/26/2013. Event Viewer shows a few things for the time that I ran the installer, though I have no idea how to make sense of what it says.

Any ideas?

On a side note, I'm getting some yellow tags on "Other Devices" in the manager. A PCI Simple Communications Controller, and an Unknown Device. I would assume these are things I haven't installed a driver for yet, and that Windows does not have by default. (I have also successfully (as far as I can tell) installed the current INF file from ASRock's site.)

 

[jolancer]

[ EDIT: oh yeah, just another note - don't worry as much about the driver version# as long as its the proper driver for your generation of hardware. System stability goes bothways, sometimes older drivers work better, sometimes newer ones... If its not broke though, you have a 50/50 chance of breaking sys stability by installing newer ones - if you have a OS Backup image it makes it much easyer to play with tho ]

...Version Notes bellow were included in your driver package, apears to have been revisions to the installer but the core driver used is v15.6.0.10 for your OS which it apparently shares with Vista

...i take it you don't know how to Un-zip the packages you downloaded? on XP i know you can just /right click/extract. I havent used win7/8, and I'm not going to guess what thy may have done to win8 LoL ...if you just unzip them though, all the drivers come with a setup.exe file ...if your experimenting or not sure what your doing, and even under normal sercomestance what i do is create a Backup image of your OS partition before screwing around with it ..I actually would do it multiple times in stages.
) after clean install before drivers
) after drivers
) before updates[if you use updates]
) after updates
) before program installation
) after everything is installed/setup
that way you don't need to fuss or question anything, if a driver/update/or program creates conflict or breaks your system stability, you can easily recover to the backup image created before the problem... I don't know if win8 comes with any decent built in app to beable to back itself up. Someone else hopefully can let you know. But if not heres a couple free ones.
http://clonezilla.org/downloads/download.php?branch=stable
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-live-cd.htm
I haven't use them though, I use a linux live distro(system-rescue-cd) similar to those but manually back it up with the $ntfsclone command. Someone else can probably recommend a pay app if preffered.

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V E R S I O N N O T E S

Windows Driver Installer
for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003/2008, and Vista 32/64 bit

Copyright (c) 2001 - 2013 Broadcom Corporation
All rights reserved.


This version.txt shows the version of the installer,
as well as the component versions included within the installer.
Please see the release.txt for changes to the installer.

16.2.1.1: - (07/31/13)
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- v14.8.0.6B WinXP drivers.
- v15.6.0.10 Vista NDIS 6.0.
- Certified Cat files.
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[CloudGray]

Thanks for the reply! I do know how to unzip files, though it's much easier now that Windows comes with a built-in program for unzipping them.