Disabling wireless controller in BIOS on ASUS Z70V

Hello.

I recently bought an ASUS Z70V. I am working on optimizing the system for audio production and am dealing with latency/buffer-size issues. To simplify, I am getting audible pops and clicks in my audio stream at low buffer-size settings. I spoke to my audio interface manufacturer today. They were very knowledgable and determined that the audio interface cardbus and Intel wireless device are on the same IRQ. He said this has caused problems before and, therefore, suggested disabling the wireless controller in the BIOS. I entered setup/BIOS by pressing F2 on boot, but found no option to disable the wireless controller and, therefore, rid IRQ 17 (the IRQ that shares the audio interface cardbus and wireless device) of any potential conflict. From speaking to the manufacturer, it seems that typical BIOS setups have lots of options for tweaking the system. However, the BIOS on my Asus has very few options. Am I missing something? Are there hidden options? Is there another BIOS/setup menu? If not, how am I able to disable the wireless controller?

Thanks for your help. This is quite important so that I can get my system up and running for live performance use.

Lion Nelson

 

You can't disable it in the bios, but you certainly could get it out of the unit and that should take care of the problem. At the same time, turning the wifi card off in windows should actually get rid of that as well and you'll still have it when you need it and it'll be easy to turn on.

 

Thanks for the response. First, how do you remove the wireless card? Is this straight-forward or difficult? Second, according to the audio interface manufacturer, it's the system wireless controller that needs to be disabled, not the wireless functionality (on/off) because even with the wireless off, it still occupies IRQ 17 and takes resources from the audio interface cardbus. Is there a way to switch the wireless to another IRQ?

Thanks.