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    Is this standard computer assembly practice?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Yak T, Sep 15, 2012.

  1. Yak T

    Yak T Notebook Guru

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    I opened my laptop up yesterday for the first time to add some memory and a new harddrive and came across this under the keyboard. Looks like an LED taped there? Im not sure, but I was wondering if I should maybe secure that a little better?
     

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    That's your 3rd antenna in case you get a WiFi mini card that supports 3 antennas.
     
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    Thank you for the quick reply. so it should be okay there with the tape? I dont plan on getting a WiFi mini card anytime in the near future lol
     
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    Instead of creating a new thread I would like to put this question out there too. Why is my Verbatim USB 3.0 flash drive only transferring pictures at 10 mbps between itself and my m17xr4? how can I fix this?
     
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    Yes. It should be fine.
     
    shinji257, Sep 15, 2012
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