Are you not able to connect to the Internet because you are missing your Microsoft Windows operating system PCI peripheral component interconnect bridge controller driver? You can go into “Control Panel” and then choose “Device Manager”. You will want to right click on that PCI peripheral component interconnect bridge controller and then delete it.
You can then click on the refresh hardware list icon in Microsoft Windows Device Manager. Microsoft Windows operating system will find that PCI peripheral component interconnect bridge again. You might be asked for your installation media, such as a compact disc read only memory disk.
If you have a restore compact disc read only memory disk or a Microsoft Windows eXPerience compact disc you can place that into your compact disc read only memory drive before you reinstall that PCI peripheral component interconnect bridge driver. It should copy that needed driver off that compact disc. Another option, is to perform a Microsoft Windows system restore back to before this issue occurred.
You can open up “Control Panel”. Now you can select “System”. You will want to then choose “Restore”.
You can follow the remaining prompts. You will want to choose a Microsoft Windows operating system restore point back to before you encountered this quagmire. This following fix worked on an Emachines T6426 with Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system installed.You can certainly use the instructions to fix this problem on any hardware with Microsoft Windows operating system installed. Also, you can use the instructions to guide you through the process of performing a Microsoft Windows operating system restore. Depending on the version of Microsoft Windows you have installed the instructions might not be exactly the same.