After fresh windows install wifi not found

damnrecalv
damnrecalv Member Posts: 11 New User

HI

After installing fresh copy of w7 on Acer Aspire e5-571, wifi not working.
I tried installing drivers from acer page, but didnt know which one to install... so i intalled all of them. All other features worked fine, bet wifi driver was not instaled and wifi card was not found...

I tried many hours to find answer on web but no luck, so i thought that i need new windows, i instaled windows 8, but problem is not resoved.

Now i run W8 and i have no idea what to search or do,

please help Smiley Frustrated

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Answers

  • Hello,

     

    First have you load the default settings in the bios utility?

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  • damnrecalv
    damnrecalv Member Posts: 11 New User

    No,

     

    i have many problems to configurate usb boot to install windows, but no other changes was made.

     

    Please advise what i need to do.

     

    1. Do you see the wifi device in the Device

    2. Load default settings:
      Start up your laptop
      Press [F2] to enter in the bios setup utility
      Press [F9] to load the default settings
      Press [F10] to save and exit
      Your laptop will re-start automatically
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  • damnrecalv
    damnrecalv Member Posts: 11 New User

    In Devices i dont see any wifi devices

     

    after i load the default settings i get this

     

    biiiiiiiii.jpg

     

    and pc wont turn on,

     

    Default Boot Device Missing or Boot Failed. Insert Recovery Media and Hit any key

    Then Select "Boot manager" to choose an ew Boo Device or to Boot Recovey Media

     

    so i press ok

     

    and boot option menu opens empty without any options.....

     

    P.S. i have bad feeling when i formated hdd to instal new windows i deleted all recovery files and particions on my acer laptop Smiley Sad

     

    i had a problem to instal windows from usb drive so i had made changes in bios to boot usb drive first and change UEFI to Legacy

  • You have installed Windows 8 in legacy boot. Windows boot manager is missing.

    I asked for help from another ACE member.

    How did you install Windows 8? Acer recovery media, iso file, genuine windows?

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  • damnrecalv
    damnrecalv Member Posts: 11 New User

    instaled windows 8 from usb drive iso file

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    I strongly suggest you to use UEFI on BIOS for compatibility and security issues.

     

    if you still have the windows 8.x iso file, download Rufus

    http://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en_US

     

    plug your USB flash drive, start Rufus

    load your iso file clicking on the little icon near iso image label

    once loaded

    select GPT for UEFI as partition scheme

    Format FAT32

    click on start

     

    wait until it finishes.

    once done, try to boot from the USB flash drive on your laptop

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • damnrecalv
    damnrecalv Member Posts: 11 New User

    so i made usb drive with rufus, and pluged in, launched pc and open up menu for new windows 8 install.

     

    i need to install new windows ?

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    yes.

     

    have you set UEFI on BIOS?

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • @Ironfly: As I asked him, he load the default settings in the bios utility so UEFI by default.

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  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    Good, time for a clean windows 8.x install

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • damnrecalv
    damnrecalv Member Posts: 11 New User

    Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can onlt be installed to GPT disks.

     

     

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    good.

     

    boot it again from USB flash drive, when asked to install windows 10, click on "Custom: Install Windows only", on the next windows click on each partition and click to delete, once you have a sinle unallocated space, click on it and choose next.

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    if you still get the MBR-GPT message after setting your HDD as RAW unallocated space.

    once at windows keyboard/language choice, press shift+F10 to open a command prompt then type

     

    diskpart

    list disk

    select disk # (# is the disk number of your HDD)

    clean

    convert gpt

    exit

     

    once done, continue with standard windows installation

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • damnrecalv
    damnrecalv Member Posts: 11 New User

    that works

     

    now intalling.... to be continued

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    eheheh 

    fingers crossing. Smiley Very Happy

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • damnrecalv
    damnrecalv Member Posts: 11 New User

    so i instaled fresh windows 8 and no wifi again...

     

    Smiley Sad

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer
    Windows logo key + x
    Device manager
    Click on view hidden devices
    Expand network adapters
    Look if any yellow exclamation mark is present
    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • damnrecalv
    damnrecalv Member Posts: 11 New User

    Other Devices>

     

    yellow mark

     

    Network Controller

    PCI Device
    SM Bus Controller

     

     

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    if Yellow exclamation mark is present

    double click on it
    choose "Details" tab
    from dropdown menu, select HardwareIDs
    click on the first value and copy/paste it here

    I'm not an Acer employee.