Aorus PCIE wifi Adaptor installed but not working?

[Baydz]

Good morning all,

I bought a second hand HP Z2 G5 Tower. but it doesnt have a wifi on it so i bought a Wifi Adopter its the Aorus GC-WBAX2400R did all the installation procedure except 1, i dont have a USB 9pin in the motherboard and i cant find one. so i see in the wifi adopter it has a USB port Female but i am not sure what it use to, and i thought maybe it will work if ever i try to put USB Male to male and insert it. di try my best but it did not work. my pc cant find the wifi driver after i install the wifi driver for W11. i am not sure if the wifi switch is already on or do i have to switch it on on BIOS if its available. I check the Device manager it doesn't show in the network area. but i see other device in the device manager and it did not let me do anything on it except uninstall or disabled. Can someone help please?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

The Network controller device is the Wi-Fi adapter in need of a driver, which means the driver you tried to install didn't work or is not supported for the model Wi-Fi adapter you bought.

Is this the support page you got the drivers from?

GC-WBAX2400R｜AORUS - GIGABYTE Global

...And there is a header to connect the USB BT cable to as long as your PC does not have the optional SD card reader.

If you look at this motherboard picture from the eBay listing I posted, you connect the USB cable to the P152 header to the right of the coin cell battery.  It is labeled SD/Media and you connect the plug so as to leave the right two pins exposed.

HP Z2 Tower G5 Workstation Motherboard 125 CML-W480 W10 | eBay

[Baydz]

Hello @Paul_Tikkanen, I am sorry but no, i got the driver from microsoft website because i thought this one is just plug and play. Also the header 152 is 11 pins, is that ok to use as the wifi adopter only have 9 pin slots on it.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

I would use the W11 driver from the link I posted.

As I had replied earlier, you plug the USB cable into the left 9-pins as oriented in that picture I posted, leaving the two right pins exposed.

It can only plug in one way due to the block on the plug with no pin hole.

[Baydz]

Great! So its ok then, i will let you know later on once i got back from and see if this is fix. Thank you!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

I believe the USB media card reader uses all 11 pins, but the USB cable for all PCIe x 1 Wi-Fi adapters only uses 9 of the pins when you have to plug it into the SD card reader header.

I've had some PC's where the header is just 9-pins and it is labeled USB and some where they had 11 pins and is marked media card or SDRDR (SD card reader).

[Baydz]

Hey Man,

the bluetooth now is working but the wifi did not. It still shows this. Is there a way i can make this work? Or else i will have to return it by tomorrow to the shop and replace it.

 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

See if this works:

Try the HP driver for the Realtek 8852 Wi-Fi adapter since HP uses the same model Wi-Fi card in some of their PC's.

Realtek RTL8xxx Wireless LAN Drivers

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp155501-156000/sp155768.exe 

[Baydz]

Hey bro, all good now, it work when i downloaded the Aorus wifi and bluetooth driver. Thats all i need to make it works. Thanks for your HELP!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Yes, that's what I had suggested you do when I posted the link to the driver site.