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    Wifi card antenna clips?

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by cope123abc, Feb 14, 2020.

  1. cope123abc

    cope123abc Notebook Evangelist

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    Guys,
    What's the clips for the 17 r4 wifi card, I think it's a 8265, I have a damaged one on the laptop.

    It's the gold part that clips onto the wifi card

    Thanks all
     
    cope123abc, Feb 14, 2020
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    MogRules Notebook Deity

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    If it's broken off inside the antenna cable then you will need to fish it out with a pair of tweezers or a pin and replace the WiFi card.

    I think this might be the first instance of this happening on an Intel card I have seen. It happens constantly on the older Killer models though.
     
    MogRules, Feb 15, 2020
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    cope123abc Notebook Evangelist

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    It was on a laptop i bought, somebody had sheered off the 2 little golden connectors , the wifi card is intact :(

    From reading i needed a NGFF clip connector
     
    cope123abc, Feb 27, 2020
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    CptXabaras Overclocked, Overvolted, Liquid Cooled

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    If i understood your problem (pictures are worth a thousand words...) you don't need a NGFF connector but rather an MHF-4 mini coaxial connector (ex: https://www.i-pex.com/product/mhf-4)

    The NGFF connector type is the slot like connector where the Wifi card is connected to

    NGFF: (this is not the connector you are looking for. Read it Obi-Wan style)
    [​IMG]

    MHF-4:
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    CptXabaras, Mar 1, 2020
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    cope123abc Notebook Evangelist

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    thanks buddy your a star !
     
    cope123abc, Mar 11, 2020
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