As the title of this post claims, I've recently purchased a desktop Intel Dual Band AC7260 + Bluetooth for Desktop (it installs in a PCI-Express x1 slot). I cannot get the wifi to work under windows under any conditions.
1- I know the hardware works fine, because both bluetooth and Wifi work great under ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (x64).
2- In Windows, bluetooth works fine.
3- Under Windows, I cannot enable the wifi no matter what I do.
I get this message in device manager:
This device cannot start. (Code 10)
{Operation Failed}
The requested operation was unsuccessful.
Event viewer gives me these two errors every time I try to enable the card:
Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 : Could not allocate the resources necessary for operation.
followed by
Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 : The version number is incorrect for this driver.
I've tried many different driver versions, from the latest 17.13.11.5 drivers all the way back to older drivers in the 16.x range. I've tried clean installations of Windows 7 Home Premium (x64), Windows 8.1 Pro and even tried the Windows 10 Technical Preview, and I get the same error no matter what combination of operating system / driver I use. These are clean installations on a home built desktop. I've tried swapping the card out to another PCI-E slot, but that changes nothing. I've tried disabling every single third party device on my motherboard (I have an Asus P8P67 Pro Rev 3.1), but that doesn't change anything either.
I've searched around these forums a bit to try and see if any other people have similar problems, and many people have similar issues, they are generally related to the card giving a code 10 error coming out of sleep. However, in my particular case, the wifi device never starts, even with sleep modes disabled.
At this point, I'm completely out of ideas. Anyone?