PC won't recognize WiFi card

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I am building a small machine with a Giada MI-E350-01 board. It has 2 Micro PCI-E slots. I bought a Micro PCI-E WiFi/Bluetooth combo card. The system recognizes the bluetooth, but not the WiFi. I tried another known working card that was WiFi only, and it still didn't work, even after manually installing drivers.

Funny thing is that the devices don't even show up in device manager unrecognized, driverless, or otherwise. But the Bluetooth shows fine, installed 4 drivers, and works perfectly.

Originally, I was running Win8, but just imaged it back to Win7 thinking that was the problem.

Hardware infos-
Motherboard
Wireless card

What am I doing wrong here?
 

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Several other devices are able to connect to the WiFi. I have tried both slots on the MoBo. Windows doesn't even show the option in the system tray. If you are out of range of all WiFi, it will still say there is a wireless device present, but it doesn't see any access points. It's like it isn't even installed. And, like I said, the Wi Fi doesn't even show up in Device Manager.