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Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WiFi no Bluetooth or Wifi

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Arinya

Arinya

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Z97N-WIFI
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Intel Core i7
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GTX 760
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Hola! I just set up my first Hackintosh but I can't get the bluetooth and more importantly the wifi to work. Has anyone successfully built a CustoMac Mini Delux? I'm thinking about just buying dongles for the bluetooth and wifi. The intel wifi/bluetooth card seems to be screwed on to the mother board and I'm afraid of removing it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I tried reading the Continuity and Handoff thread but it's all over my head. :crazy:
 
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GA-Z97N-WiFi |  i7 4790K |  GeForce GTX 760
Read the threads/posts in my signature block for my Hector (H97N) system. :thumbup:
 
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Thanks! I'll read it. Did you get the bluetooth and wifi to work work using the network card that came on the board?
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As I said in my build description, guides and the iMac WiFi/BT installtion, the Gigabyte WiFi/BT card only has the BT supported - WiFi is not as it uses the Intel chipset for which there are no drivers. The BT part of the Gigabyte card worked erratically for me. However, once I installed the iMac WiFi/BT card and adapter, it behaves perfectly - AC1300/N450 WiFi speeds and BT 4 with handoff/continuity. The unforeseen benefit of using the iMac card is that sleep/wake-up works like a charm with BT keyboard or Might Mouse waking up the sleeping system.
 
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As I said in my build description, guides and the iMac WiFi/BT installtion, the Gigabyte WiFi/BT card only has the BT supported - WiFi is not as it uses the Intel chipset for which there are no drivers. The BT part of the Gigabyte card worked erratically for me. However, once I installed the iMac WiFi/BT card and adapter, it behaves perfectly - AC1300/N450 WiFi speeds and BT 4 with handoff/continuity. The unforeseen benefit of using the iMac card is that sleep/wake-up works like a charm with BT keyboard or Might Mouse waking up the sleeping system.
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So I read through it and it made total sense! I've ordered the pieces but the Super Power Supply® 2 x 6in / 15cm Mini PCI U.FL / IPEX to RP-SMA Antenna WiFi Wireless Router Pigtail Cable is on back order since last week. There an alternative? I looked on Newegg but could not find the exact one. Thanks! I'll try to post the outcome once I have all the pieces. Thanks again!

Oh what app do you use to check the temperature of your CPU? I downloaded iStats but it doesn't seem to be working. I dunno if it's a Yosemite thing or maybe something I need to do with with my BIOS? I dunno.
 
Build 1
GA-Z97N-WiFi |  i7 4790K |  GeForce GTX 760
Although I don't use the following on Hector, you can try running the latest MultiBeast for Yosemite (v7.2) just loading:
Driver > Misc > FakeSMC Plugins
Driver > Misc > FakeSMC HWMonitor Application​
See page 6 in the MultiBeast Features document, which came with MultiBeast, or at MultiBeast.com
 
Stork said:
Read the threads/posts in my signature block for my Hector (H97N) system. :thumbup:
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So I finally got my card yesterday and the final set of wifi antennas are back in stock so I am ordering them today but I noticed that you have 4 black antennas that connect to the 4 antenna wires. Do I need to buy those as well? All I have is this antenna from the Gigabyte board that has only two connectors for two antenna.

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Also the tiny wifi card that comes with the board had a metal housing or bracket that I had to unscrew from the board. In your pictures it looks like you have one over the new wifi card. But my card is too tall. Do I need to buy a new metal bracket to fit my new wifi card and adapter? Sorry for all the questions. Thanks again!
 
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GA-Z97N-WiFi |  i7 4790K |  GeForce GTX 760
Arinya said:
So I finally got my card yesterday and the final set of wifi antennas are back in stock so I am ordering them today but I noticed that you have 4 black antennas that connect to the 4 antenna wires. Do I need to buy those as well? All I have is this antenna from the Gigabyte board that has only two connectors for two antenna.

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You can try to use the Gigabyte supplied antenna for the BT and one of the WiFi, but you'll need at least two more antennas with long leads to give you the full 11ac speeds. However, since the Gigabyte WiFi & BT are sharing the same antenna, I can't see how you'll get the same performance from one antenna that you'll get with a dedicated BT antenna and three dedicated 11ac rated WiFi antennas. But, I had a couple of spare 2.4GHz/5GHZ antennas, so I just used them.

Arinya said:
Also the tiny wifi card that comes with the board had a metal housing or bracket that I had to unscrew from the board. In your pictures it looks like you have one over the new wifi card. But my card is too tall. Do I need to buy a new metal bracket to fit my new wifi card and adapter? Sorry for all the questions. Thanks again!
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The iMac WiFi/BT card fits into the adapter card (required) which fits into the same slot on the motherboard as the Gigabyte WiFi/BT card. You only need those two cards and the motherboard bracket will hold the iMac WiFi/BT & adapter card. But the adapter card is important as the iMac WiFi/BT card has a propriety interface.
 
Stork said:
You can try to use the Gigabyte supplied antenna for the BT and one of the WiFi, but you'll need at least two more antennas with long leads to give you the full 11ac speeds. However, since the Gigabyte WiFi & BT are sharing the same antenna, I can't see how you'll get the same performance from one antenna that you'll get with a dedicated BT antenna and three dedicated 11ac rated WiFi antennas. But, I had a couple of spare 2.4GHz/5GHZ antennas, so I just used them.

The iMac WiFi/BT card fits into the adapter card (required) which fits into the same slot on the motherboard as the Gigabyte WiFi/BT card. You only need those two cards and the motherboard bracket will hold the iMac WiFi/BT & adapter card. But the adapter card is important as the iMac WiFi/BT card has a propriety interface.
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So I have to buy the black antenna part? What is it called so I can find some online and buy them.

As for the card I get the adapter but I was asking about the metal bracket that the original card was held in. I had to unscrew it from the board to take the card out. Do I need to use that? It's too short for my new card. Do I need to find that and buy that too? Thanks again! So helpful!
 
Build 1
GA-Z97N-WiFi |  i7 4790K |  GeForce GTX 760
Arinya said:
So I have to buy the black antenna part? What is it called so I can find some online and buy them.
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Yes. See the link to my iMac WiFi/BT guide in my Hector build signature block.

Arinya said:
As for the card I get the adapter but I was asking about the metal bracket that the original card was held in. I had to unscrew it from the board to take the card out. Do I need to use that? It's too short for my new card. Do I need to find that and buy that too? Thanks again! So helpful!
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Yes, you'll use the the metal bracket for the cards, but you can't screw it to the bracket so I used some electrical tape to secure it to the bracket.
 
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