- May 28, 2015
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I turned my PC on today and in the bottom right corner it shows the wired connection icon (monitor w/ cord icon) and then the red X.
When I click it says Broadband Connection, and then view settings. There is no Wifi option. Troubleshooting only tells me to plug in an ethernet cord. Nothing more.
I don't have an ethernet cable, so no internet connection on that PC.
Thankfully I have another PC to troubleshoot on... Here I am!
I run Windows 10 and have upgraded some parts in the PC but I don't think the wireless adapter has been touched since I bought it...
I read to go into "change adapter settings" and do some power saving something or other with the wifi adapter, but there literally IS NO wifi adapter there. All that comes up when I click "change adapter settings" is Broadband and Ethernet. Neither of which are of any use to me.
And then I read that I could go into device manager and do something with the adapter from the network devices drop down there, but all that is shown when I look at that is a controller one (which I know isnt the wifi, because that's what the device is called in change adapter settings under Ethernet), and a bunch of WAN miniport ones. Which are the Broadband things.
There is nothing else. No "wireless" anything or "wifi" anything.
I don't know what adapter my PC has built in because I can't find it in devices... and I don't have any way to access the internet on the PC either so I can't install drivers or anything even if I did know what hardware I had...
Is this a hardware issue? Is my built-in wifi adapter broken?
I'm sorry if I didn't give enough info! If there are any questions I can answer to help someone get a better picture of my issue and help me solve it, I'm refreshing constantly!
When I click it says Broadband Connection, and then view settings. There is no Wifi option. Troubleshooting only tells me to plug in an ethernet cord. Nothing more.
I don't have an ethernet cable, so no internet connection on that PC.
Thankfully I have another PC to troubleshoot on... Here I am!
I run Windows 10 and have upgraded some parts in the PC but I don't think the wireless adapter has been touched since I bought it...
I read to go into "change adapter settings" and do some power saving something or other with the wifi adapter, but there literally IS NO wifi adapter there. All that comes up when I click "change adapter settings" is Broadband and Ethernet. Neither of which are of any use to me.
And then I read that I could go into device manager and do something with the adapter from the network devices drop down there, but all that is shown when I look at that is a controller one (which I know isnt the wifi, because that's what the device is called in change adapter settings under Ethernet), and a bunch of WAN miniport ones. Which are the Broadband things.
There is nothing else. No "wireless" anything or "wifi" anything.
I don't know what adapter my PC has built in because I can't find it in devices... and I don't have any way to access the internet on the PC either so I can't install drivers or anything even if I did know what hardware I had...
Is this a hardware issue? Is my built-in wifi adapter broken?
I'm sorry if I didn't give enough info! If there are any questions I can answer to help someone get a better picture of my issue and help me solve it, I'm refreshing constantly!
If your MB WIFI is brocken.
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