MSI Herald-BE WiFi 7 MAX Not Showing in Windows 11 or UEFI.

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IM SORRY I PUT THIS IN THE GPU THREAD THERE'S NO OTHER THREAD FOR THIS

I bought a used MSI Herald-BE WiFi 7 MAX on Amazon in "very good" condition, and it did look brand new despite it coming in nothing but a bag inside a cardboard box which could be a red flag, but it looks undamaged to my knowledge. I plugged the usb 2 header into my F_USB 1 on my motherboard cuz I wasnt using it and I put It in a unused PCIeX8 slot (it's a 1X card) and I've done everything from skimming my entire UEFI for related options, unplugging it, reseating it, forcefully downloading the drivers (it was greyed out saying no compatible devices) through device manager, uninstalling my mobo wifi and bluetooth drivers, and even calling an MSI phone line tech who just told me to reseat it again. I saw on the product page that it should come with a quickstart guide manual, which I haven't found online yet, but I'm 90% sure it probably won't help.

Here's the driver/product page:
https://www.msi.com/PC-Component/HERALD-BE-WIFI-7-MAX/support
 
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Could you connect the module to different PCIe slots to check whether the module could be identified in the Windows operating system?
 
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Just purchased and installed a Herald BE9400 PCIe card. 10 minute install and all works absolutely fine on my W11 B560M PRO-VDH. Bluetooth is great but above all, WiFi is excellent, rock solid, much better than the onboard Intel WiFi which I have of course disabled.
 
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andrecabraldutra20115a402dd said:
Can you share how did you managed to do it?
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I'm not at all really sure what I can share? I bought the WiFi card from Amazon, brand new, I installed it into a spare slot on my MSI motherboard, plugged the USB header into a spare slot, switched the PC back on, installed the driver directly from the MSI website and it just works.

I'm using W11 and my BIOS is updated to the latest version for my motherboard. I'm three days in since installation and no problems whatsoever.

As I stated previously, I disabled the onboard WiFi card and Bluetooth drivers in Device Manager, otherwise you'll no doubt have a conflict between the onboard drivers and the Herald driver.
 
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saabilla150e02ce said:
I'm not at all really sure what I can share? I bought the WiFi card from Amazon, brand new, I installed it into a spare slot on my MSI motherboard, plugged the USB header into a spare slot, switched the PC back on, installed the driver directly from the MSI website and it just works.

I'm using W11 and my BIOS is updated to the latest version for my motherboard. I'm three days in since installation and no problems whatsoever.

As I stated previously, I disabled the onboard WiFi card and Bluetooth drivers in Device Manager, otherwise you'll no doubt have a conflict between the onboard drivers and the Herald driver.
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You just plugged? What drivers you used? The ones from MSI site does not work.
 
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andrecabraldutra20115a402dd said:
You just plugged? What drivers you used? The ones from MSI site does not work.
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Yes, I just plugged (or inserted) the WiFi card into a spare slot on the motherboard, can’t make that any clearer 🤷‍♂️ The USB header cable plugs into the card and then into a spare USB header slot. That’s all there is to it.

The drivers from the MSI website do work because that’s where I got the drivers from as there’s no driver disc in the box.

I’m using W11 25h2 latest version.

If you can’t get the Herald to work on your system, then it’s either a fault with the card or your PC or your system just isn’t compatible or your router isn’t compatible with the Herald. There’s really nothing else I can help you with.
 
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saabilla150e02ce said:
Yes, I just plugged (or inserted) the WiFi card into a spare slot on the motherboard, can’t make that any clearer 🤷‍♂️ The USB header cable plugs into the card and then into a spare USB header slot. That’s all there is to it.

The drivers from the MSI website do work because that’s where I got the drivers from as there’s no driver disc in the box.

I’m using W11 25h2 latest version.

If you can’t get the Herald to work on your system, then it’s either a fault with the card or your PC or your system just isn’t compatible or your router isn’t compatible with the Herald. There’s really nothing else I can help you with.
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Luck for you. Here Windows does not recognize any driver on the folder and does not allow it to install
 
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andrecabraldutra20115a402dd said:
Luck for you. Here Windows does not recognize any driver on the folder and does not allow it to install
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I don’t think luck has anything to do with it at all. I have a system that works, like everything works exactly as it should do, no problems with hardware or drivers. But then I don’t complicate my setup with lots of different add ons, I try to match everything to one supplier, in my case, MSI. Also, I recently successfully upgraded the BIOS for the 2023 security certificates and followed that up with a Reset this PC with latest cloud copy of Windows 11 Pro 25H2.

As it happens, theres also a new driver release for the Herald. Just updated it through CCleaner, again, no problems.
 
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