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

I recently built a PC and thought this motherboard (Asus Prime B550M-A WiFi II, windows 11 ready) was a nice option for having the WiFi 6 and Bluetooth included. But I cannot make it work. I installed the antenna hardware properly, downloaded Drivers on the product website and Intel respective website.

I tried it on Windows 11 which is the OS I plan to use. I will make a list of what I tried to solve the problem:

- downloaded and installed all respective drivers (BT-22.140.0-32-64UWD-Win10-Win11, WiFi-22.140.0-Driver64-Win10-Win11, DRV_Bluetooth_Intel_non211_SZ-TSD_W11_64_V228004_20211022R and DRV_WiFi_Intel_All_SZ-TSD_W11_64_V228011_20211022R)
- downloaded and installed the ArmouryCrate for the motherboard

- downloaded and installed the chipsets

- check for any built static by turning it off, pulling out the power cable, held the power button for a while (30+ seconds) and turned it all back int. (Tried this a few times during my attempts to solve the issue).

- used windows troubleshooting

- uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled it through the manager

- tried some cmd prompt commands to activate wi-fi on start-up and such

I have been trying alternatives for more than a day and this is getting me really upset... Don't really know what to do anymore.
I got the drivers from:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/18649/intel-wireless-bluetooth-for-windows-10-and-windows-11.html

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/PRIME/PRIME-B550M-A-WI-FI/HelpDesk_Download/

Any recomendations?