So I'm not sure if anyone can help, but I recently bought an TP-Link Archer T4E AC1200 Dual Band WiFi card with the intent of being able to move my daughters PC in her room without the need for miles of cable.
I got the card installed, but windows wouldn't detect it at all. Tried all 3 stubby PCI ports, and nothing. Little light on the back of the card wouldn't even light up. Tried it in my PC, the light came on, and windows found it just fine.
I tried to google it, but all of the answers were for either different cards, or people said they plugged them into the larger slots and they worked. I tried to do that, but oddly on this board, the lower larger slots sit a few mm farther forward than the stubby or top PCIE slots, making it impossible to plug it in.
I'm at a bit of a loss on this one, I know it's not defective, so returning it isn't really an option once it's opened.
Her PC is an i5-4590 with 16GB of 1866MHz ram, a 120GB SSD, GTX 980, on an AsRock Z97 Anniversary board. I know it's not exactly modern, but it still should accept a WiFi card, shouldn't it? Sadly the drivers don't have the .inf file in them, so I can't manually install the drivers. Tried hooking up a CD ROM and using the disk that came with it, no joy with that. Maybe the PC is just too old to accept a WiFi card?
Thanks
This is a photo of the board, as you can see the bottom PCI slots are forward for some silly reason. Can't say I've ever seen that.
View: https://imgur.com/a/uaSt8B0
I got the card installed, but windows wouldn't detect it at all. Tried all 3 stubby PCI ports, and nothing. Little light on the back of the card wouldn't even light up. Tried it in my PC, the light came on, and windows found it just fine.
I tried to google it, but all of the answers were for either different cards, or people said they plugged them into the larger slots and they worked. I tried to do that, but oddly on this board, the lower larger slots sit a few mm farther forward than the stubby or top PCIE slots, making it impossible to plug it in.
I'm at a bit of a loss on this one, I know it's not defective, so returning it isn't really an option once it's opened.
Her PC is an i5-4590 with 16GB of 1866MHz ram, a 120GB SSD, GTX 980, on an AsRock Z97 Anniversary board. I know it's not exactly modern, but it still should accept a WiFi card, shouldn't it? Sadly the drivers don't have the .inf file in them, so I can't manually install the drivers. Tried hooking up a CD ROM and using the disk that came with it, no joy with that. Maybe the PC is just too old to accept a WiFi card?
Thanks
This is a photo of the board, as you can see the bottom PCI slots are forward for some silly reason. Can't say I've ever seen that.
View: https://imgur.com/a/uaSt8B0
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