Question SOLVED Crazy problems with Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Elite AX (v. 1.4) Wi-Fi drivers

[timboalogo]

So I built a new PC with the above motherboard, build went incredibly smoothly. To be honest my 25 year old daughter did 99% of the work and I'm not kidding. I used the board because it was part of a package deal.

Wi-Fi did not work after a Windows 10 install, I scoured Tom's and the web and could not find the Intel drivers for the Intel hardware. To make a long story short, the drivers are not Intel's but Media Tek.

What really @#$%^%$'s me off is that the MOBO didn't come with a CD because most cases don't have CDs in them anymore. So Gigabyte puts them up on their site, if you can find them. It took me hours and a lot of searching to find the driver.

This site and its users have been a great help to me in the past so I thought I'd post the name of the driver that will work for anyone searching the web for a solution to the topic:

mb_driver_644_amdwifi_3.2.0.0213.exe

And a couple of shots of the Windows driver and properties for the seekers out there!

Driver + Properties

Thanks everyone and I hope this helps someone!
Timbo

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

What really @#$%^%$'s me off is that the MOBO didn't come with a CD because most cases don't have CDs in them anymore.

it's been over a decade since i had a retail motherboard come with included drivers, whether on DVD or CD.

it should be very easy to just type the model name/number into the manufacturer's support site and access all offered software & drivers
or just directly type in the web address included in the motherboard manual.

if it's this difficult for you to navigate a hardware manufacturer's website;
make sure you keep a link handy to this motherboard's support / downloads page because you will need to keep the BIOS and other system drivers up to date for maximum performance and compatibility into the future.

 

[Lutfij]

The drivers are listed on Gigabyte's support site here;

Z690 AORUS ELITE AX (rev. 1.4) Support | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

Lasting Quality from GIGABYTE.GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ motherboards bring together a unique blend of features and technologies that offer users the absolute ...

www.gigabyte.com

It's been a very long time since I've used an ODD an we suggest users download the necessary drivers for their platform while on a functioning system before migrating to a new build.

 

[timboalogo]

Funny joke about how difficult it was to navigate to the manufacturer's website John! I laughed and laughed.

It's been a decade since my last build, that's why I come to this forum. So much has changed.

The confusing thing was that the box the board came in said it was a 1.x ... so searching for the 1.x led me to think that the device was a "WIFI a, b, g, n, ac, ax, supporting 2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band" as it says on https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z690-AORUS-PRO-rev-1x/support#support-dl-driver-wlanbt, which is an Intel driver. I actually navigated to the manufacturer's website! By myself! But I digress.

I just posted to help someone to find the right drivers easily in case they were as confused as I was.