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Installing Windows 10 Pro, finds NO Internet
I didn't see this problem anywhere, but it's got me stuck.
Just built a new system. MSI Z690 Tomahawk WIFI DDR4, I9-12900, etc.
Boots and works fine with the disk from the previous system – Windows 10 Pro. The only thing that DIDN’T work was wireless. No wifi. I can plug in an ethernet cable and get Internet, but no wifi.
Went out to MSI and downloaded several things, and installed them. Nothing.
Finally, I decided to put a CLEAN, NEW copy of Windows 10 Pro on (which I'm going to do anyway), so I put the Windows 10 21H2 ISO onto a flash drive, and installed. Everything went FINE UNTIL the point where it said “Now we need to connect to the Internet”. No Internet. No WIFI, no Ethernet, NOTHING.
So, I called MSI, and by luck, I got a guy that said, “Ah, this is an Intel AX201 wifi, so lets get a driver directly from Intel.
Booted the computer into the existing Windows 10, downloaded the wifi from Intel, installed it, and it works. So the motherboard HAS wifi, and with this driver, the wifi works.
SO BACK to trying to install the clean copy of Windows 10. Same thing. Boots from the flash drive, installs, every’s fine, ‘til it gets to “Now we need to connect to the Internet”….
And there I’m STUCK. I told it “I don’t have Internet”, so now I’ve got some brain-dead version of Windows 10.
HOW do I get Windows 10 to install on here? I’ve got the most recent version of the Windows installation as far as I know, but HOW do I get this to install properly?
In mid-flounder, I just booted into the brain-dead version, then went to the folder on the other drive where the Intel stuff is. I installed the WIFI drivers and the Network stuff from MSI. So, now, in the brain-dead version I HAVE wifi and ethernet, so I RESTARTED an install (maybe), by clicking on setup on the ISO disk I did the install from.
It's sitting here churning for "updates", but is this the RIGHT way to do this? Maybe the only way? Why doesn't windows know about any of this in the Windows 10 install?
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A quick update... It sat there and churned for a long time. Screen resolution changed. Then it MIGHT have done a reboot, but it didn't actually reboot, it just blacked out the screen, all the fans went to full speed, and it sat there. I let it go for about 30 minutes, then, crashed it.
Rebooted, and it APPEARS to be at least sort-of normal, but I have no idea how to tell whether all of Windows 10 is there. Control panel says it's Windows 10 Pro but doesn't tell me if it's active or not.
So, did it work, or not? And if not, how DO I get it installed?