MSi B250M Mortar Arctic BIOS Board Explorer - Only Detects GPU on PCI-e X16 but not WLAN Card on PCI-e X1

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Good day Tom's Hardware!

Here is my current specifications:

Motherboard: MSi B250M Mortar Arctic
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-7100 @ 3.90 GHz
PCI-E 1: GPU: EVGA GTX 680
PCI-E 2: Empty
PCI-E 3: WLAN Card: TP-Link (TL-WN781ND)

Accordingly, the processor can handle Max. # of 16 PCI Express Lanes, and the GPU is running on X16 Mode. When I open the BIOS Board Explorer, the WLAN Card is not detected, but it is working in Windows when booted. Do I have the right idea that the reason why the BIOS not detecting the WLAN Card is that the Processor only capable of X16 Mode and that the GPU already occupying the 16 Lanes available? The WLAN Card is running on X1. I already updated the BIOS, but no luck.

 
Solution
16 PCIe lanes are available from the CPU socket for the graphics card. The B250 chipset has 12 additional PCIe lanes.

It sounds like it is working okay in Windows. I can't say what's up with the Board Explorer. I see other people complain their RAM and Video Card also do not appear in it on Google
TL-WN781ND is available in two Versions:
V1: System Requirements:
Windows 7(32/64bits), Windows Vista(32/64bits), Windows XP(32/64bits), Windows 2000

V2: System requirements:
Windows 10, Windows 7(32/64bits), Windows Vista(32/64bits), Windows XP(32/64bits), Windows 2000

Notice anything different?
 

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I got the V2.
 
16 PCIe lanes are available from the CPU socket for the graphics card. The B250 chipset has 12 additional PCIe lanes.

It sounds like it is working okay in Windows. I can't say what's up with the Board Explorer. I see other people complain their RAM and Video Card also do not appear in it on Google
 
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