

I kept the USB 9-pin cable connected to the same motherboard connector, and left the card's USB-A port empty Somehow it made more sense to me when I built the computer, and couldn't wrap my brain around it this time. I went into the motherboard's manual, but honestly couldn't figure out of I was "overloading" the PCI lanes.

Ugh.why do networking components always seem to have such GARBAGE documentation?Īnyway, I've submitted tech support requests from Gigabyte and Intel, and haven't gotten a reply after 4 days, and pulling my hair out. Although.I have to assume this is just a cord for USB pass-through for the seemingly un-used USB port on the card itself?

Or.maybe the cord isn't plugged in to the right spot on the motherboard? It says to connect the "USB" cable to the "F-USB" connector on the motherboard, but I didn't have one, so I plugged it into the JUSB1 connector. I wonder.if maybe I have too many things plugged in to my motherboard's PCI-e slots? (video card, gigabit network card, and this wi-fi card (my motherboard doesn't support gigabit, nor did it have built in wi-fi) along with an M.2 drive) Is that a thing? I've tried un-installing and re-installing both Gigabyte's and Intel's drivers, i've tried restoring bios defaults (a suggestion I saw somewhere), many re-boots, to no avail.
