I bought a new PC from Guanghua today and was told that the motherboard had wireless capability. I had the thing made, took it home and in Control Panel, I saw no wireless options. Nothing to set up, nothing at all apart from a normal wired connection. The model is an ASUS M4A87TD USB3. Is there something I am missing? Were the store mistake in believing that it was capable of running wirelessly? Of am I missing something on the tech side of things? IF it doesn’t have wireless, what can I buy to make it so that it does?
Well a quick google reveals this:
LAN Realtek® 8111E Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET2
and a second google reveals this:
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/NETWORK-CARD/REALTEK/Asus-P7H55-M-USB3-Realtek-LAN-Driver-7183222010-for-Win7.shtml
Perhaps download the drivers and try to install it.
Hope this helps.
[quote=“saddletramp”]Well a quick google reveals this:
LAN Realtek® 8111E Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET2
and a second google reveals this:
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/NETWORK-CARD/REALTEK/Asus-P7H55-M-USB3-Realtek-LAN-Driver-7183222010-for-Win7.shtml
Perhaps download the drivers and try to install it.
Hope this helps.[/quote]
Does that Realtek have wireless functionality? I saw something called Atheros Wireless on the Device Manager for a split second but it disappeared…
They’re talking horse shit asus.com/product.aspx?p_id=nlwyri9wlniyhaaa
No wireless of any kind on that board, not even Bluetooth.
If it has, then they must’ve installed a Wi-Fi card in it or added a USB dongle, but that’s the only way you’re going to get wireless on that board.
Also, for Wi-Fi to work you need an antenna in the back unless it’s a small USB dongle, so if you don’t have either of that…
hardware or software for wireless? hardware should be visual, software should be in your win 7 network connections.
[quote=“TheLostSwede”]They’re talking horse shit asus.com/product.aspx?p_id=nlwyri9wlniyhaaa
No wireless of any kind on that board, not even Bluetooth.
If it has, then they must’ve installed a Wi-Fi card in it or added a USB dongle, but that’s the only way you’re going to get wireless on that board.
Also, for Wi-Fi to work you need an antenna in the back unless it’s a small USB dongle, so if you don’t have either of that…[/quote]
So is there anything I can buy to make it wireless?
Sure, any of these or anything like it shopping.pchome.com.tw/?mod=stor … _NO=DRAF14
Damn, it appears that my 8GB of RAM cannot be handled by the 32BIT Windows 7 they installed on my new PC. I wasn’t aware until only 3.25 of the 8 showed up as usable, which I wasn’t aware would happen. Perhaps something got lost in translation. Hope I can get that fixed or maybe ask Microsoft if I can switch the Win7 64 I just got for my laptop (it had 64 bit originally, but in Chinese, so I got a retail copy in English and used the 64 bit disk) with the one on my desktop. They are both legitimately purchased licenses bought within a couple of days of each other. Either that or ask the shop for a 64 bit exchange… they only had 64 bit pro at the time, but I wanted Home Premium, which they said was OK in 32 bit.
Well, there’s no reason why you couldn’t just download a 64-bit version of Windows 7 and use the serial number on your notebook, but it has to be an OEM version or it won’t work.
Microsoft isn’t going to condone it though, as according to them it’s borderline and they’d never approve of anything borderline.
And 32-bit Windows is limited to 4GB of RAM, although slightly less will show up but for some reason this varies from install to install for some reason…