wifi card

[zzay]

I have a wifi card which uses ax210 and my motherboard wifi says ax201 in device manager, but when i put the card in and booted it up i got the recovery screen. When i took it out everything worked fine again so i think its a problem with the wifi card but i dont know what it is since its brand new. I thought wifi cards wouldnt work only if it had the same AX as the motherboard, but now im not sure. 

[n_scott_pearson]

A LAN/WLAN solution requires two portions, a MAC and a PHY. I will let you look these up separately if you are curious what they do.

The AX201 module only includes the PHY portion. To work, it relies on the chipset to provide the MAC portion and utilizes a special bus, called CNVio2 to allow the two portions to communicate with each other. This CNVio2 bus is implemented using unused pins in the PCIe M.2 connector.

The AX210 module, on the other hand, has both MAC and PHY portions included in its silicon. It does not need to use the MAC portion that is provided in the chipset and thus does not need to make use of the CNVio2 bus that is provided in the M.2 connector (all necessary communication is done over the PCIe bus).

Ok, your problem is that the motherboard - and the way that it implements support in the M.2 connector for the CNVio2 bus, is incompatible with the AX210 card and it fails to POST when an AX210 module is present. I do not understand what the issue is (other than it is obviously a mechanical/electrical issue in nature). Some motherboards will allow the AX210 to be used and others, like yours, will not. Whether there is a trick - like covering a pin with electrical tape - that will allow the AX210 module to be used, IDK.

The other alternative, if you have a free PCIe x1 connector on your motherboard, is to forget about your M.2 connector and use a PCIe WiFi card carrier card in this connector. Here's an example of such a card: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MFGYAX6. I have a couple of these PCIe WiFi card carrier cards that I use in systems that don't have M.2 connectors and have tested both AX200 and AX210 modules in them.

Hope this helps; I gave you a very simplified picture of the issue,

...S

[zzay]

Sorry i didnt see this for almost 2 months, will using that fix the issue or could there still be some interference issues with the motherboard? I have a free pcie slot where i put the wifi card in but im not sure how the link you sent me works. Do i have to take my SSD out of its slot and put it in the pcie slot?

[n_scott_pearson]

So where to you stand right now.

If you've done nothing (i.e. you removed the AX210 card and are not using Wireless at all), then your options are:

1. Purchase an AX201 to put in the M.2 connector on the motherboard.
2. Purchase a card carrier (as I mentioned), insert the AX210 into it, plug it into a PCIe x1 connector, connect the USB cable from it to a USB connector on the motherboard, power on and boot into Windows and then install the Wireless and Bluetooth driver packages (which are located here and here). After a reboot, Wireless and Bluetooth should both work.
3. Continue to run without Wireless support.

If you've done something different, explain what you've done and we will go from there.

Hope this helps,

...S

[zzay]

Hi, so far all ive done is remove the ax210 card and keep using the motherboards wifi, but ive been getting extremely bad packet loss ever since i got my computer but on my xbox on the same game theres no packet loss and it makes most thing pretty much unplayable, So im worried the motherboards wifi might be damaged so ill try option 2. We also just upgraded to fiber optic internet today and there was no difference. Thanks for your help. I also sent a video showing how crazy the packet loss goes every 15 seconds. I read the description of the card carrier and it says it only converts an NGFF into PCIE, but my ax210 wifi card uses PCIE with a usb connector. Is there another alternative? 

Edit: I just found this ax3000 wifi card i can get, can you confirm if it will work please. My motherboard is a MAG B660 TOMAHAWK WIFI DDR4 incase it has some specific interferences like the wifi card i currently have

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Dual-Band-Bluetooth-specialized-Ultra-Low/dp/B0B12ZC588/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=ax300+wifi+card&qid=1701527504&sr=8-3