Question ASUS ROG Z790E wifi II

[rcflyercomp]

If I had hair before, it would have been ripped out by now. I need some ideas from someone who has been there on how to load WIN 11 on my new PC. I have some previous experience doing much earlier vintage builds, but this is the first on the current upper mid leve tier of products. My build is a Corsair D5000 case with a TX1000 power supply, an ASUS ROG Strix Z790E WIFI II motherboard, Trident G5 6400 64gig, a GeForce 4060 TI video card, and a 2 TB M.2 G5 SSD. At present I do not have the video card installed, but everything else is.

Here is where the problem starts. The system boots perfectly, and I began to install windows 11 pro onto the system. The initial steps were fine until I got to the network setup step, where the system hangs up and just sits there with a pretty message saying let's connect you to a network, but not letting you do it. I've traced it to (I think) to ASUS not having installed the intel lan drivers onto the motherboard. I have the instructions email from ASUS, am an aerospace engineer by education and a retired airline pilot by trade, and I cannot understand what they are saying. I understand how to update drivers when the operating system is installed and working, but I do not know how to get these drivers installed from the point where the windows installation is stalled.

So, finally my question, how do I get the drivers installed so windows installation can get past this network item?
Also, how in the he** can a motherboard not come with the drivers installed for the chipset and processor that it is designed for?

Thanks.

 

[boju]

Try going into bios and disable lan controller, save and exit. Boot back to bios and enable, save & exit. See what you get then when you get to network stage in Win11 install.

 

[rcflyercomp]

Try going into bios and disable lan controller, save and exit. Boot back to bios and enable, save & exit. See what you get then when you get to network stage in Win11 install.

That did not work. The email that I got from ASUS gave me a link to the section that describes exactly what I am encountering. It says to go to the ASUS help website and download the intel lan drivers, which I have done and unzipped them to a USB 3 flash drive. I got that done, but I am lost in trying to figure out what they are saying to do at this point.