NecroJoe
Stool Chef
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- Apr 12, 2005
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- 2015 Mazda 3 S GT, 2015 VW e-Golf
I purchased the Gigabyte GC-WBAX200 wi-fi pci-e card (based on Intel's AX200) for my existing PC (Intel 6600K, GTX 1070), and it's not working.
I can see it in the device manager, but it says:
I'll note that I've also seen "code 43"
I've tried un-installing and re-installing both Gigabyte's and Intel's drivers, i've tried restoring bios defaults (a suggestion I saw somewhere), many re-boots, to no avail.
I wonder...if maybe I have too many things plugged in to my motherboard's PCI-e slots? (video card, gigabit network card, and this wi-fi card (my motherboard doesn't support gigabit, nor did it have built in wi-fi) along with an M.2 drive) Is that a thing?
Or...maybe the cord isn't plugged in to the right spot on the motherboard? It says to connect the "USB" cable to the "F-USB" connector on the motherboard, but I didn't have one, so I plugged it into the JUSB1 connector. Although...I have to assume this is just a cord for USB pass-through for the seemingly un-used USB port on the card itself?
Ugh...why do networking components always seem to have such GARBAGE documentation?
Anyway, I've submitted tech support requests from Gigabyte and Intel, and haven't gotten a reply after 4 days, and pulling my hair out. I've been having to use a USB wi-fi dongle that constantly just drops out on me so that I have to turn off wi-fi and turn it on again, and then every 5-6 times, that stops working and I have to unplug it, and plug it back in again.
I can see it in the device manager, but it says:
I'll note that I've also seen "code 43"
I've tried un-installing and re-installing both Gigabyte's and Intel's drivers, i've tried restoring bios defaults (a suggestion I saw somewhere), many re-boots, to no avail.
I wonder...if maybe I have too many things plugged in to my motherboard's PCI-e slots? (video card, gigabit network card, and this wi-fi card (my motherboard doesn't support gigabit, nor did it have built in wi-fi) along with an M.2 drive) Is that a thing?
Or...maybe the cord isn't plugged in to the right spot on the motherboard? It says to connect the "USB" cable to the "F-USB" connector on the motherboard, but I didn't have one, so I plugged it into the JUSB1 connector. Although...I have to assume this is just a cord for USB pass-through for the seemingly un-used USB port on the card itself?
Ugh...why do networking components always seem to have such GARBAGE documentation?
Anyway, I've submitted tech support requests from Gigabyte and Intel, and haven't gotten a reply after 4 days, and pulling my hair out. I've been having to use a USB wi-fi dongle that constantly just drops out on me so that I have to turn off wi-fi and turn it on again, and then every 5-6 times, that stops working and I have to unplug it, and plug it back in again.