My mainboard is an msi b450 Mortar Max. Until recently, I used a pretty small gpu, which left enough space for my network adapter to fit in the pcie 3x4.

I upgraded my gpu this winter, but there was only space in the second pcie 2.0x16, which (probably) doesn’t provide enough lanes. That’s why wifi stopped working, and bluetooth started to become buggy.

Now I was playing around with the thought of picking up a 2in1 usb dongle, but I heard they aren’t that good.

What’s would be the best thing to do in this case?

Edit: The network adapter is a Gigabyte GC-WB1733DI

  • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    3 days ago

    most wifi pcie cards should work better than usb dongle (vastly better signal with external antennas), also bt on those cards works on usb (little cable you connect to your mobo), so it’s weird it became buggy. It seems all pcie slots on that mobo except the main one are pcie 2.0, the last one (long one) has 4 lanes so it should work fine, comparing to pcie 2.0 x1 slot you were probably using before, BUT:

    PCI_E4 slot will be unavailable when an M.2 SSD is installed in the M2_2 slot.

    maybe that’s why your card became buggy? wifi isn’t working because there’s no pcie signal in the slot and bt is buggy because there’s less power form the slot? that’s my guess

    anyway what’s your GPU? is it really taking 3 slots?

    • Fafa@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      The card is only attached by pcie. Should I look into connecting the 9 pin usb?

      I have a second m2 in the m2_2 slot but i have disabled it, since i didnt need it at the moment. That could be the causing problem with the network card. It’s funny that bt kinda works though. Shouldn’t both be unavalable in that case?