I purchased 2 Intel 6200 advanced-N AGN wifi cards to replace the stock card in my HP pavilion g6 2299ea, simply for the 5GHz capability. I thought it would be a straight swap, install drivers and carry on abut my day but it has cost me an all-nighter and roughly 10-12 fresh installs of different Windows.
Here's what I did so far:
- On Windows 10, Swapped the cards, installed the Intel driver for Win 8.1 but wifi would not turn on.
- Tried different drivers.
- Tried the other card but same issue so they cant be faulty
- Tried on fresh install of Windows 7, worked after I installed the windows 7 driver
- Tried on fresh install of Windows 10, same issue
- Since the latest driver was for Windows 8.1 I tried that, didn't work
- Installed another fresh 8.1 and it worked! Did my updates and rebooted, broken again
- Painfully, I deleted all the updates one by one, rebooted, still broken - Reset network by cmd
In device manager, it always says 'This device is working properly' but always has a red X on the wifi signal bar and never allows me to turn the wifi on. Ideally, I'd like to remain on win 10.