Asus PRIME B550M-A WIFI II wifi driver issue/not working - BRAND NEW BOARD
How to Install MediaTek WiFi Adapters for B550M-A WIFI II Motherboards?
ASUS Prime B550M-A WiFi II or MSI PRO B550M-VC WiFi ProSeries Motherboard
Got the B550-A WIFI II
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Just thought I’d do my due diligence and leave this here for the next person to fall upon this issue.
Had a friend buy this motherboard and ask me to install it for them, had no issues during installation, booted and posted first time, updated BIOS, then I logged in and started installing drivers. When I ran the WIFI driver from ASUS website, nothing seemed to happen. I quickly realised there were no wifi icons to be seen (either in quick access or settings). I checked device manager - yellow caution symbol, auto update wasn’t detecting anything available and searching manually also wasn’t picking up this very blatant file on my desktop.. BIOS - to see if onboard WIFI was enabled - which it was.. even enabling ‘WWAN AutoConfig’ under services and yep, definitely not taking the install. I attempted numerous times, restarting and trying again with still, nothing working.
Then, while looking through the manual, I realised that the WIFI driver install file that I had gotten from Asus’s website (keep in mind, you need to input your exact model details to get the correct drivers, which I had done) WASN’T THE CORRECT DRIVER FOR THE BOARD. The WIFI driver that it asks for you to install from their website under Asus B550M-A Wifi II.. is a MediaTek driver, the CORRECT WIFI driver that is used by the motherboard… requires the RealTek WIFI driver..
Flick me a message if you need this driver, also if you need to double check which driver you require, that can be found one of three ways, in the user guide under ‘specification summary’, checking CPU-Z or using Asus’s Armory Crate. Cheers lads
For anyone who still has this issue (2024):
- Download ASUS Armoury Crate. (ASUS Software Manager)
- Create an ASUS Account and register your motherboard using the serial number on the box.
- Using the Armoury application, download all the recommended drivers.
- Restart Computer.
This is what fixed it for me!
I also updated to the latest version of Windows 11.
Good luck and happy many hours of troubleshooting!
Hi Robinson, thank you for helping.
Attached is the screenshots you have requested.
I have also attached a screenshot of the event viewer if it helps....
UPDATE: I have resolve the issue. I have looked up the hardware ID online it was a RealTek 8852BE Wireless LAN WiFi 6 PCI-E NIC which I downloaded online and now works :D
Thanks a lot for your help