Hi, I’m hoping I can get some help on this, so I tried installing Windows 11 on a Chromebook 15.6 (Yaviks), and despite some early step hiccups, I removed ChromeOS and successfully got Windows 11 on it. Unfortunately, I’m running into some installation issues with a few of the drivers: Wi-Fi and Touchpad
I’ve been following the steps as listed on the site (How to install Windows 10/11 on a Chromebook), and downloaded all the mentioned drivers and put them onto a thumb drive, installing them as they’re listed. For some reason, despite installing the Intel WiFi drivers, it doesn’t detect a connection and says that it can’t do diagnosis as it can’t detect the Virtual Network Adaptor, even when trying to find it through CMD, it says that there is no device. I don’t know if clearing all of the partitions of the Chromebook when installing Windows 11 is the cause, but I can’t find out why the adapter isn’t detected or functioning despite installing the drivers stated as installed by the installer.
The Touchpad also appears to be not working despite running the mentioned installer.
Anyone might know how to fix these two issues, I especially need the Wi-Fi to finish a few of the updates.
I redid all the driver installation steps prior to the WiFi Driver (VC++ Redistrib/CR50 TPM/Chrome EC) and even restarted it. And I have looked at the device manager, this is what I get even after multiple attempts:
This is my first time installing Windows on a Chromebook, so I honestly don’t know what device drivers I’m missing via which method/installer as I have been following every step as listed on the Coolstar site, along with their included downloads, to the VC++ and EC Drivers to the Autoinstall that follows after the WiFI Driver, so I don’t know what I’m doing wrong that’s causing the missing drivers.
And this is why installing Windows on a Chromebook isn’t for people who don’t know basic Windows driver troubleshooting.
You have a Network Controller there, which is almost certainly your WiFi module. Did you install the correct drivers for it? We have no idea. Do you know how to determine that? If not, time to learn