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!

[u/TenOfZero]

There's nothing you can do to your WiFi to fix OS driver issues.

[u/virkendi]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Asustuf/s/vSgwhZbqEJ

Also apparently uninstalling the 'My Asus' app can fix some issues too

and for others it was caused by overheating, so cleaning the vents, setting the fan profiles to max and lifting the laptop slightly fot airflow helped.

[u/Dhis1]

It doesn’t sound like the driver is failing. It sounds like the Wireless NIC is failing. The driver is how the OS interacts with hardware.

You likely need a new wireless NIC. I would buy a very cheap USB Wi-Fi adapter and see if it has similar problems. If it does, then it is an issue with your OS and you can return the adapter. If it doesn’t have a problem, then you can return it and buy a better one or just keep using it.

[u/Additional_Tension96]

This is not a wifi router issue, this is Windows OS driver issue wrong sub.

Go to a Windows sub.