After fresh windows install wifi not found
damnrecalv
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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 
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Hello,
First have you load the default settings in the bios utility?
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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.
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- Do you see the wifi device in the Device
- 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
0 - Do you see the wifi device in the Device
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In Devices i dont see any wifi devices
after i load the default settings i get this
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
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
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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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instaled windows 8 from usb drive iso file
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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
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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 ?
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yes.
have you set UEFI on BIOS?
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Good, time for a clean windows 8.x install
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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.
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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.
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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
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that works
now intalling.... to be continued
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eheheh
fingers crossing.
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so i instaled fresh windows 8 and no wifi again...
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Windows logo key + x
Device manager
Click on view hidden devices
Expand network adapters
Look if any yellow exclamation mark is present
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Other Devices>
yellow mark
Network Controller
PCI Device
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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 hereI'm not an Acer employee.0
