[SOLVED] Question about built in wifi

[ShadeWolf]

This may be a dumb question but I just built a new system with the ASRock Fatal1ty X470 mini-itx motherboard with built in wifi and don't know how to get it to work. I have plugged in the antennas but that's about all I know. Thanks for any information.

 

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty X470 Gaming-ITXac/index.asp#Download

[Santo22]

What exactly isn't working? You have no wifi icon in the task bar? You may need to go to the motherboard website and download the driver. You should have an icon at the bottom right of task bar to see what open networks there are. Let me know exactly what the problem is and I'll try to help. I just built with the same board. 

[ShadeWolf]

Just now, Santo22 said:

What exactly isn't working? You have no wifi icon in the task bar? You may need to go to the motherboard website and download the driver. You should have an icon at the bottom right of task bar to see what open networks there are. Let me know exactly what the problem is and I'll try to help. I just built with the same board. 

yes there is no option to select a network to connect to in the bottom right hand corner of the desktop. It looks like a normal board would if it didn't have built in wifi where it expects you to connect an ethernet chord.

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, ShadeWolf said:

yes there is no option to select a network to connect to in the bottom right hand corner of the desktop. It looks like a normal board would if it didn't have built in wifi where it expects you to connect an ethernet chord.

With another PC, go to the motherboard's website and download the driver. Move the driver onto a USB drive, and use that to install the driver on your desktop.

[Santo22]

Ok, so either you need to go into Windows settings and make sure Wifi is turned on or you need to go here: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty X470 Gaming K4/index.us.asp#Download 

 

But the driver should have installed while installing windows. So check settings first. Also you can check in Device Manager to make sure the Network Adapter is showing up

[ShadeWolf]

Ok, so I restarted the computer twice before and it still wasn't recognizing any wifi signal but I just restarted it for something completely different and it suddenly popped up and works now so.... at least it works I guess.

[Santo22]

Windows must have finally installed the driver. I would recommend still going to the link I gave you and downloading the latest drivers as well. Glad to see you go it going though!