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USB Wifi Adaptor A6210 connection issues
I purchased this adaptor on Oct. 2, 2021 and didn't really have any issues with it. After a little while I noticed whenever I booted my pc, it would keep connecting and disconnecting from my school's...
MrMurica11 wrote:
Motherboard: ASUS STRIX B350-F GAMING
(motherboard doesn't have most recent bios update)
The BIOS is much less important than the chipset drivers.
Things like USB rely on third party drivers, The support pages for your motherboard usually have a bunch of updates on the originals.
The symptoms you describe certainly sound like something at that level.
Ah, makes sense. I found the most recent chipset driver on the page for my mobo. I'll update it and see what happens
So I updated the chipset to the most recent version. Just as a note, when I went to AMD's site and found my chipset, it had a more recent version than my ASUS' site did so I downloaded the AMD one. I also tried to update my bios for the hell of it but it failed to read the cap file. After updating the chipset though it still did the weird connecting and disconecting between the messages I mentioned before with the "Device can perform faster when..." and "Connected to usb 3.0" and one time when I restarted my pc it gave me a strange message, I attached the screenshot of it from settings. It said the adaptor was an unknown USB device and that the device descriptor failed, along with incomplete setup. I unplugged it and plugged it back in. The adaptor did lose connection again randomly. Not sure if it been a full proof solution but I feel it may have helped a bit.
MrMurica11 wrote:
Not sure if it been a full proof solution but I feel it may have helped a bit.
It does hint that the problem may be with the PC.
You could also remove the adapter completely. And that includes going into Device Manager and deleting all "hidden" entries for related USB and network adapter things.
Wifi adapters
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That's what I'm afraid of now. Not sure what could be wrong. Also, what would deleting it in device manager do? Sorry if it's obvious but I'm not sure.
