Unable to boot up with new WiFi card installed
 

Hi All,

I have recently bought a computer that was set up for flight simming using only a LAN Ethernet card. I have tried to install a WiFi card into a PCI-E x8 slot without success. The computer fires up fine without it but with the card fitted fails to even boot. There are no beeps from the motherboard or on screen indications so I can't trouble shoot the problem.

I tried installing drivers and then refitting the card without success so can only assume that the BIOS is set to reject a x1 card in a x8 slot. The motherboard is a Gigabyte G1. Sniper M5 with a GTX1080 taking up three of the available slots (including the dedicated x1 slot that would have worked).

Does anyone have experience of how to tell the motherboard that the card inserted should be OK and recognized, and more importantly how to do it?

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

I would take out the GTX1080 and boot up the system using the onboard GPU and HDMI or DVI out. If that works, install the WiFi card in the x1 slot and see if the system will boot up like that. If that works then it's an issue between the card and slot as you suggested, if that doesn't work, you may have a busted WiFi card.

Wouldn't it be easier to go for another WiFi card? Perhaps a USB WiFi adapter?