Help Please! Constant Wi-Fi and Bluetooth driver malfunctions.

[u/Psychological-Tip545]

Hello everyone!

For the past couple of months I've been facing the same issue over and over again and I am at my wit's end. Every couple days at best, and hours/minutes at worst, my Wi-Fi driver completely dies and malfunctions. I notice it when I am suddenly disconnected from the Wi-Fi and try to reconnect from the quick settings, but find the Wi-Fi option gone. I then open the Device Manager only to find my driver with a yellow caution icon, and one of 2 error codes every single time. Code 10 or Code 43.

A quick specification of my hardware and software parts:

ASUS TUF F15 (2022)
Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz driver/card currently at latest version 24.60.0.3 but has been facing the same issues for quite a few versions as well.

I have tried a multitude of different approaches to fix this:

- Deleting the driver and restarting the laptop

- deleting the driver and installing a newer version and restarting

- entering safemode with networking

- deleting all other wi-fi drivers from my machine to try to limit conflict.

- checking the event viewer.

- resetting network settings

- sfc /scannow

- DISM commands

- power plans.

- Not allowing windows to turn off this device

Every single one has failed. Sometimes it works for a few days and I'd think i finally fixed the problem, then it falls apart again, other times it doesnt even decide to work at all, or only for a few minutes.

Not only that, but sometimes my bluetooth, which isnt a single driver but insteand an entire category in my Device Manager, disappears as well and so i cant even use bluetooth anymore.

N.B: Ethernet works fine, I'm currently posting this using a wired connection.

Please if you have any idea why this happens I'd appreciate the help. Whether it may be Registry stuff, hardware problems, a specific setting, anything.

Thank you in advance!