Windows 10: Unknowable wifi issue

I have an amazingly stupid and irritating issue with my laptop. Firstly, the laptop is an asus G551JW. The internal wifi card is an Intel 7260HWM. Here is the issue I have. My wifi card will suddenly and without warning stop working. When this happens, my computer will not act like the wifi card disappeared, it will instead say I'm still connected to my network Let's call it Home-5G. So It will say connected to Home-5G but no internet access. Now sitting at my desk, if I look at list of available networks prior to the issue, I will see well over a dozen including Home-2G and Home-5G. Once this happens I only see Home-5G the one I'm connected to all others disappear from the list completely as if Home-5G were the only network in the world. At this point, if I reset the wifi adapter then 50/50 chance it will fix and I'll have internet again. This issue occurs at random intervals anywhere from 5 minutes apart to 2 days apart.


Easy, must be a hardware failure, right? I purchased a USB Wifi card Neoteck Gold Pro AC 5G. I plug it into my laptop and... the same issue. I thought how strange that is that I would have this issue with two different wifi cards going through two different interfaces which rules out a fault with the miniPCI-E slot my internal wifi goes through. With that in mind, I tested the Neoteck on my desktop, it worked flawlessly. Didn't have a single hiccup with the thing.


Digging a little deeper, I noticed something interesting. In Device Manager, after the problem shows its ugly face, it says "No drivers installed for this device" on my wifi card. If I go to the "Drivers" tab though, it shows the driver still clearly installed.


I've scanned for viruses with three different anti-virus software, I've tried running in safe mode, shutting off all startup programs, turning off services I don't use, turning recommended services on, refreshing/resetting Windows. Nothing I do will allow me to keep this laptop connected to the internet... not even a USB wifi card. Now before you go and blame my router, there are three cellphones, two Playstation 4's, two smart TV's and a Xbox One all on wifi not to mention when friends visit and bring their laptop. No other device has any issue with the wifi ever; just this one laptop. I'm at my wits end. Also, the problem doesn't exist when I dual boot into my Linux system. It's a Windows 10 issue on my laptop.

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AMD FX OC'ers Club

That's what the auto setting will do since you're over the 1333 mark it jumps to the next step which isn't listed or officially supported I assume by that ram.

At this point though I would suggest dropping the multi one step or .5 so that we can get something stable and possibly take the heat issue out of the picture for now.

 

wifi issues

Hi,



Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it helps.

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  Press Windows + X.
  
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  Select Device manager
  
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  Next select ‘Network Adapters’ and under it, you will find a Wi-Fi controller listed. Select it.
  
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  Double-click the controller to open the adapter’s Property window and switch to ‘Drivers’ tab
  
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  Next, click the ‘Disable’ button and hit ‘Ok’ to apply the changes. See if it helps
  

Method 2 : Windows 10 has a built-in troubleshooter to check and fix issues with Internet connection. I would suggest you to run this troubleshooter to check if the issue
is with your internet.

Refer these steps:

• Press Windows key +X, select Control panel

• Change the view by option on the top right to Large icons
• Click on troubleshooting and click on the view all option on the left panel
• Run the Internet Connection troubleshooter

Method 3.

Try updating the Network Adapter drivers from the manufacturer's website and check if the issue persists.

Follow the steps to update the Network Adapter drivers:

a. Press Windows key + X key and click Device Manager.

b. Expand Network Adapter.

c. Right-click on the Ethernet and click on Update driver software.

d. Restart the computer and check.

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.

 

Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.