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Asus X79 Deluxe - Broadcom WLAN Chipset not detected

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Yes. Kinda. I have a PCI-E riser in the 1x slot, though nothing in the riser. But the riser is also not connected to power or anything. Could this be it?

BIOS is up to date and is a clean install. Will contact Asus in the morning, but would like to figure something out tonight!

Very well could be as the x1 slots, normally under the gpu's, share their pci-e lanes with WiFi and the other esata. Which slot is it in?

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Hi all, bit of a pickle. I hate network drives, and I'm hoping this problem isn't as bad as the last time I had to do this on Gigabyte board.

 

Basically when I turn on my (pretty much brand new PC).....no Wifi.

 

The OS doesn't even detect that there is a WiFi chipset, and network troubleshooting merely says "Plug in an Ethernet Cable".

 

Looking in device manager, all devices are up to date, and no unknown devices are found. 

 

I download the drivers for WiFi off of Asus' website (as well as Broadcom's) and the setup does not work, give Update cpp errors.

 

Annoyingly, this works fine under Linux, so the motherboard is FINE.

 

Likewise, bluetooth on the same chipset works perfectly.

 

Operating sytem: Windows 8.1 Pro x64.

 

Anyone else have a clue?

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Only 2 things I can think of. Try a clean install of windows, something might have gone bad there. Secondly, try updating your Bios though I would understand if you're not keen on doing this.

 

If neither of these 2 works I suspect your motherboard needs to be RMA'd.

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I have the board and just did a clean install last night. Did you possibly populate one of the pci-e x1 slots?

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I have the board and just did a clean install last night. Did you possibly populate one of the pci-e x1 slots?

 

Yes. Kinda. I have a PCI-E riser in the 1x slot, though nothing in the riser. But the riser is also not connected to power or anything. Could this be it?

 

BIOS is up to date and is a clean install. Will contact Asus in the morning, but would like to figure something out tonight!

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Yes. Kinda. I have a PCI-E riser in the 1x slot, though nothing in the riser. But the riser is also not connected to power or anything. Could this be it?

BIOS is up to date and is a clean install. Will contact Asus in the morning, but would like to figure something out tonight!

Very well could be as the x1 slots, normally under the gpu's, share their pci-e lanes with WiFi and the other esata. Which slot is it in?

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Very well could be as the x1 slots, normally under the gpu's, share their pci-e lanes with WiFi and the other esata. Which slot is it in?

 

It was in the slot under the first GPU (so second slot).

 

I took it out and voila. It worked. 

 

Will I still be able to use the PCI-E slot  under the second GPU without compromising WiFi?

EDIT: Yes I can. I don't know what I am compromising though. If it's eSata I'm not too fussed as I have two eSata ports on my front panel, even if they aren't powered.

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It was in the slot under the first GPU (so second slot).

 

I took it out and voila. It worked. 

 

Will I still be able to use the PCI-E slot  under the second GPU without compromising WiFi?

EDIT: Yes I can. I don't know what I am compromising though. If it's eSata I'm not too fussed as I have two eSata ports on my front panel, even if they aren't powered.

yea youll just compromise the eSATA ports

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