Windows 10: Acer Spin 3 Laptop Wifi Problem's

I wanted to factory reset my Laptop to be able to give it away to a family member but when I did and was moving through the process of setting it back up for them I get to the Wifi portion of the set up only to see that it says the Wifi is turned off and needs to be turned on. The only options I see are: Manually, In one hour, In four hours, and in one day. I can't move past this no matter what I choose and now I don't know what to do.

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cannot turn on wifi on acer laptop

Laptop model: Acer Aspire A515-51-59DP

Here's what I've done so far:

1. Settings > WiFi Settings > Turn On WiFi (it shows as off). That switches the toggle, but never turns on. If I reload the WiFi settings, it shows as off again.
   
2. It does have a keyboard shortcut to enable/disable WiFi (Fn + F3), but that does nothing at all. (the other F-key hotkeys work). This machine does not have a hardware switch for WiFi.
   
3. Reinstalled WiFi driver.
   
4. Replaced WiFi card, installed drivers.
   
5. Disabled power management (don't allow Windows to turn off wireless)
   
6. Found a couple posts that said with Intel cards to disable 40hz. Now explicit setting for that here, but found one similar and changing it did nothing.
   
7. I don't see anything in the BIOS for enabling/disabling it.
   
8. Restarted machine multiple times. Also pulled battery and cord and held power for 30 seconds.
   

Any suggestions?

Video of the problem:

 

Windows 10 wifi not turning on Acer Aspire laptop

In order to get the list of available wireless networks, you have to:

1. Switch on Connect to suggested open hotspots (see the screenshot in question);
   
2. Click on Wifi icon in the right corner. Now you have your networks back.
   

After that the parameter from Step 1 can be turned off, networks will be listed normally after restarting Wifi.

P.S. I feel rather stupid at the moment. I thought that open hotspots are passwordless hotspots and so are presumably not very safe. So of course I've turned that off during installation.
Really hard to see any logic in this case.

 

Acer Laptops :are they crap ?

Acer makes a cheap prodcut period. They user lower end plastics, as well as assembly. (I hate working on Acer laptops)

If budget is an issue then get an acer... though for $50 more you could get a gateway that will smoke the acer in terms of quality.

For a laptop though i would suggest one of the DV7T's from HP or a Business class Toshiba/HP/IBM (not the lenovo branded, the Thinkpads)