Got several of these cards last week and having issues with them still.
The laptops are toshiba l855 s5372, Win 8.1 64bit on 3 of them, and Win 8 64bit on the last one. Upgraded from the centrino n 6235 on all of them.
Tried the latest driver, doesn't work.
This device cannot start. (Code 10)
Have tried the following versions, believe that is all the versions available on the site.
16.1.1.3
16.1.5.2
16.10.0.5
17.0.0.34
17.0.5.8
17.0.6.1
17.1.0.19
None of the drivers work for either the win 8 or 8.1 machines.
A user in the thread Intel 7260 Code 10 after installing lastest drivers on win8.1 ( 17.0.6.1) , is having a similar issue, was able to get the card working under ubuntu but not windows.
All the cards were bought new. Also one was bought from another source to see if it would work or give a code 10. That is my next step tomorrow morning. Wasted too many hours trying to find a solution for this problem.