Wireless network adapters not detected by new desktop

TLDR at the end

I finally built a new desktop to replace the one that died a couple of years ago.

I assembled it (correctly I'm fairly confident) and the computer turned on and everything seemed to work fine. I tried to connect to my wifi with my wifi adapter (Asus PCE-AC56 PCIe x1 802.11ac) and my motherboard does not seem to detect my wifi adapter. I've seated it in all of the PCIe slots on my motherboard and the small light on the adapter lights up when it is plugged in, but the computer does not detect is as plugged in. I looked up the drivers and this card is supposed to work with windows 10 plug and play so it did not give me any drivers to download. I tried installing the WLAN control center for the card and even that gave me an error message about not detecting the wireless card.

I went out and bought a USB wifi adapter (Netgear A6210-100PAS USB 3.0 802.11ac) to see if that might work, but that is giving me issues too. When installing the drivers the computer doesn't detect it as plugged in when I'm prompted to plug it in. I tried a few work arounds I found on different forums, but they all involve trying to get it to update the drivers through the device manager window. This USB wifi adapter is recognized by the computer, but not as a a wifi adapter. In the device manager window it is visible under "Other Devices" as A6210 instead of under "Network Adapters" as an 802.11ac Wireless Lan card. When I have tried to update the drivers using the work arounds it gives me the error "One of the installers for this device cannot perform the installation at this time." I have tried to plug the USB dongle into my laptop and it was detected correctly there.

My motherboard's drivers are up to date as far I as can tell. Both products are compatible with my motherboard according to pcpartpicker. I've spent the majority of my free time today and last night trying to figure it out and I'm at my wit's end. At this point I'm hoping it is a really simple mistake and I'm just an idiot. Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

Side Question: My computer also does not detect any devices for sound. Plugging headphones into any of the audio jacks does not work. I don't have a sound card because I was under the impression that they were necessary. Any off the top of your head fixes for this?

Specs:

* GEFORCE RTX Mini 2070 Super * ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 * Ryzen 5 3600X * Asus PCE-AC56 PCIe x1 802.11ac * Netgear A6210-100PAS USB 3.0 802.11ac * Windows 10

TLDR:

* Built new desktop * Can't connect to wifi with wireless card or USB wifi adapter * Computer does not appear to be able to detect either product despite being properly connected * Tried all USB and PCIe slots and none of them worked * Unable to update drivers because its not detected * Tried work arounds from years ago and nothing helped