PCI wifi card error on X370 Professional Gaming

pci, or pcie

wardog wrote: pci, or pcie

herophongtran wrote: Hi  As I mention on the title , does anyone of us guys has the same problem with me ? When I install the pci wifi card to the pci 1x slot, the window 10 64bit will freeze on the login screen and after that the system will automatically shutdown My X370 professional gaming is running with the 3.10 BIOS version  - Some ways that I tried but did not fix the problem :    + Disable the build-in wifi come with the motherboard in the BIOS    + Try to download the lasted drivers     + Tried with another pci wifi card **** the first wifi card that I tried is  Asus PCE-AC88 and the second one is Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless - AC 7265         the onboard wifi card is Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless - AC 3168 Please , if anyone of you has the same problem and find the solution , let me know, appreciate !

First, the Intel AC 3168 and AC 7265 are both M.2 interface WiFi cards, and cannot be used in a PCIe slot. The M.2 slot for those cards is near the IO panel, and you must remove the plastic cover over the board by the IO panel to access that special M.2 slot.

If you put the AC 7265 M.2 WiFi card in a PCIe 2.0 x1 slot, you might damage either the WiFi card, the board, or both of them. If that is what you did, who knows what happened.

The Asus WiFi card is the ONLY PCIe slot card that you have. Why it is not working now, I don't know, WiFi cards usually have very specific instructions about their connection. Did you try the Asus card in both of the PCIe 2.0 x1 slots?

- Before , I used 2 Corsair 16Gb run at 3000 , after I disable the XMP in the bios, let them run at the default bus 2133 , the wifi card work well :)

Edited by herophongtran - 01 Oct 2017 at 10:13pm