Bluetooth Drivers not working! Code 43 on,off,on,off every 5 seconds

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Mother board: ASUS STRX z270e Gaming 1151
CPU: Intel i-7 7700k
CPU Heatsinc: CoolMaster Hyper T2 Cooler
Ram: 2x 8gb Gskill RGB D4 2400
PSU: EVGA Supernova 850 Gold2 80g
GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 11gig
SSD: 500gb Samsung
HDD: 2x 1tb WD black
Operating system: Windows 10 x64

Problem Description:
As stated in the title, my Bluetooth device is not working properly. However, this case is really odd? It works fine if I uninstall the updated drivers (That is the driver that is most recently released: 'Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4A Bluetooth 4.1"). When I uninstall the aforementioned driver, windows install the basic driver for it and it works for a while. After a while windows realizes that it is not up to date, and then updates the driver to the most recent again and it stops working. Here is how it looks while it is working:



It's behavior while not working is odd and it's hard to google or search this description because it is not an ordinary code 43 thing. While it is up to date and not working, in device manager the Bluetooth driver goes from having the error exclamation point to not having it over and over and over again. like it's flashing on and off. It's always the same error of 43. Screen shots below:



Keep in mind both of these screen shots were taken literally 5 seconds from one another. And it switches back and forth over and over like that.

Things I have tried myself:

Uninstalling and reinstalling the device
Manually updating the driver
Checking windows files integrity

Hi there. Are you saying it worked with the MS generic driver? If so, the only way that I know to block Windows from updating the driver is this:

Turn On or Off Device Driver Automatic Installation in Windows 10 Windows 10 Windows Update Activation Tutorials

Keep in mind that this will block other drivers from updating, so you may want to unblock it monthly before update Tuesday so they can, then block it again.

BTW, did this start happening with the latest cumulative update?

HippsieGypsie said:

Hi there. Are you saying it worked with the MS generic driver? If so, the only way that I know to block Windows from updating the driver is this:

Turn On or Off Device Driver Automatic Installation in Windows 10 Windows 10 Windows Update Activation Tutorials

Keep in mind that this will block other drivers from updating, so you may want to unblock it monthly before update Tuesday so they can, then block it again.

BTW, did this start happening with the latest cumulative update?

I upgraded all the hardware in my computer the weekend of 8/01/17 hardware upgraded includes:

Mother Board
Graphics Card
Ram
Processor
PSU

the only thing that was left is the hardrives and window installation from my previouse hardware, in which case i was using an asus bluetooth dongle as my previouse motherboard did not have onboard bluetooth. So this issue has been a problem since i built it that weekend.

So in short I am not certain if the recent update broke the bluetooth or if it is something related to just my system.


If i can help it i would like to find another sol.ution other than having to turn off auto update... but if all else fails i will keep that in mind. Thanks :)

Etetherin said:

If i can help it i would like to find another sol.ution other than having to turn off auto update... but if all else fails i will keep that in mind. Thanks :)

Ok, so we know it wasn't the update then. Is this an Asus driver that doesn't work? Have you searched the Asus site for a fix?

Well i downloaded the drivers from asus website for my motherboard. So i guess the answer to that is yes.

if you are meaning did i search for the problem i am having, then the answer is i tried. Its a very specific issue and i looked for all manner of ways to say "bluetooth not working" or "code 43 Bluetooth" on their support site and tried those steps.

What I meant was are the updated drivers Asus drivers? Or does the Asus board have some other Bluetooth device brand on the board?

when installed from the asus website, from the downloads page for my particular motherboard, the driver name is this "Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4A Bluetooth 4.1"

I dont know what else you mean. I am sorry

Thanks. Then it's a Qualcomm brand onboard Bluetooth device incorporated on the board.

Ok, sorry to not be much of a help! Thank you for your help as well.

Well for now I have disabled auto update. :/ this is hopefully a temporary fix as it sux to not get the rest for them automatically over an issue with just one.

Thanks all in advance for your help ^~^