I'm on a HP dm4-3050us, so I don't know how this relates to ASUS problems, but I would encourage everyone to look for a software/driver conflict and one that was loaded after the install of Windows 8 and before you started having problems.Īgain, thanks for posting that you solved it!! The airplane mode software and then reinstalled the wireless, I finally got graphic slider that is supposed to appear under WiFi, but it was greyed out. When I uninstalled the wireless adapter and added Then when the airplane mode software finally worked, that was the only thing F12 would activate/deactivate. Wireless key showed on all of the time except momentarily on a reboot. I was sure the wireless worked initially when the Windows 8 install completed and then began all of the frustration that everyone in this thread hasĮxperienced. It was a conflict somewhere, but would never have guessed it was that. When I found wireless detail in safe mode with networking, I realized Thank you! I kept telling myself that was not the problem because it didn't make sense, but would eventually have tried removing it. Anyway, if you try the path I suggest, going after your laptop manufacturers drivers rather than the NIC drivers, I think you'll be successful. Since ASUS uses a real dodgy installer process i presume that when the saw that a driver was in a directory or in the registry, theyįigured 'hey, it's already installed' rather than overlaying it with the driver I was needing. Once I was passed the ATK package, things started working. I then re-installed the ASUS drivers, one by one. I used Unlocker in a couple of cases to get rid of the directories. Through, blew away all of the ASUS drivers I had, uninstalled and deleted the software directories for them in Program Files (x86) and Program Files. These are laptop specific drivers from the manufacturer, not something from Intel or Atheros or Microsoft. Sure enough I found some Windows 7 drivers being used or implied while there were Windows 8 drivers available for the laptop. I noticed that a couple of the drivers weren't loading properly and since they were associated with kernel mode services, this had me worried. My Laptop is an ASUS G75VW and while looking at the driver stack I finally got my wifi to work and after tracking a lot of things down with System Information, Device Manager etc, for me at least I found a bug in my manufacturers device installer.

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