I recently purchased a computer component bundle from microcenter. It came with an Asus motherboard equipped with on board wifi and Bluetooth. Doing my research on this board prior to purchase I noted that many people were having issues with the wifi, Bluetooth, Internet connectivity, and expo settings frying things. The deal was too good to be true. Getting the NIC to work was actually not that difficult. The main problem was Intel stating that you need at least a cat 5 or cat 5e Ethernet cable. No you don't. You need a cat 6 or a cat 8 cable. I was re-using the old cable that worked perfectly fine with my old rig and I wasn't even getting lights on the NIC. As soon as I replaced the cable with a brand new cat 8 cable it was lighting up (but only when the computer was off!). Steps to fix it were 1. Get a cat 8 cable. 2. Install updated firmware. 3. Manually set the speed&duplex. After that it works. I never had a problem with the wifi or the Bluetooth.