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    dv7-2040us how to remove wifi? is it mini pci?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by parle, Apr 6, 2011.

  1. parle

    parle Newbie

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    Hi guys am looking to upgrade the wifi in my dv7-2040us but I can't seem to find the damn wifi, does anyone know where its located and how to remove it? I want to switch over to the intel wifi 6330 from the 5100agn.

    I have removed the whitelist from the bios already.

    Thanks
     
    parle, Apr 6, 2011
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  2. RainMotorsports

    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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    If I am looking at the right board here the Mini PCI-E slot used for wifi on that laptop is on the same end the Optical drive connects to. Just behind the Short SATA port on the same side of the board the CPU and ram connect to. There appears to be a second slot on the opposite corner for probably the tv tuner offered on that model, etc.

    Eitherway if you havent spotted it already then its like many models and you havent done a full tear down yet.
    http://www.ascendtech.us/mmASC/Images/516294002.jpg

    Bottom right is the optical drive connector where u should find the wifi card. Bottom left is the other connector i mentioned. It seems as though that mobo might be the DV7t but the DV7-2040US board looks the same as far as those connectors the picture for that was worse.
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Reading the service manual, it is located underneath the hard drive.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Apr 6, 2011
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  4. parle

    parle Newbie

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    Thanks guys it was under the hard drive. I'm upgrading the card to a 6330 centrino lets see if it works, with the whitelist removed.
     
    parle, Apr 6, 2011
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  5. TomJG90

    TomJG90 Notebook Evangelist

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    I wonder how you did that. Anyways , my old laptop had a 5100 and really it was excellent. I wonder why you wouldn't want to go through the hassle to get a 6330?
     
    TomJG90, Apr 8, 2011
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    User Retired 2 Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    <strike>HP like to whitelist their mPCIe slots. If affected you'd need an unwhitelisted bios OR a wifi card that's in the whitelist.</strike>

    ^^ has already unwhitelisted the bios
     
    User Retired 2, Apr 9, 2011
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    He said he has removed it.

    I got a longer range out of my card and support for the 5ghz band. In a flat block sandwiched between lots of networks I get much more stable throughput on downloads now. A nice solid 1.7 megabytes per second :)
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 9, 2011
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  8. TomJG90

    TomJG90 Notebook Evangelist

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    Brb... I get 0.6MB/s... You make me angry..
     
    TomJG90, Apr 9, 2011
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