Wireless card adapter. Need help.

So I'm planning to order a Intel 6200 wifi adpater for my G73.
Link : PROVANTAGE: Intel 622AN.HMWWB Intel Wifi Link 6200 622AN.HMWWB Half Height Minicard VPRO Enabled Retail
I wanted to change it because I have a low signal on my room because our router is upstairs at the living room. Now, I really don't know how to change it. I know that you just need to take the two screws off, pull the old card out, but I don't know how to take the two wires off and put it back to a new card. I'm scared to mess up with that thing.

I really needing help and if someone can make me a 10 sec video for it(taking and putting the wires back), I would really appreciate it. Thanks

 

The wire terminals just snap on the connector posts on the card. They don't screw or twist or anything fancy.

You can carefully pop them off with a small flat screwdriver blade under the lip of the terminal cap....it takes very little force.

Sorry no video

 

cool.. hoping u'll make one on ur free time..tnx anyways...

 

Hope this helps.

 

cool men.. but what i wanted to know is how or what should i use to take the wires off from the old card... i really dont want to break it...

 

They just pop off. No need to be hard on them.

 

ok tnx.. is it just like taking the lid off from a starbucks coffee????

 

Yes.


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So I bought it. Installed it... install the driver.. and now its not working... after installing it, I clicked the wifi icon and it says not connected and there's no list of wireless connections... i removed it.. uninstall the driver.. then do the same steps again.. and I failed again... what should I do?

 

did you uninstall the old wifi drivers and such?

 

at first no.. then i did it.. but when i restarted it.. it installing back again automatically... so when i check the device manager.. there's two adpater there.. the atheros and intel...

 

uninstall Atheros in Device Manager, and choose to delete all drivers.

 

did it.. but i failed again... i uninstall everything on the device manager... put the intel back.... reboot.. after that... the atheros install automatically again... i installed intel driver.. then it didn't work.. i removed everything again... then now.. even the atheros is not working anymore... it has the same problem now..

 

Have them both out, and boot. If they are still being detected, do a rollback with System Restore. Seems you got some Registry hell going on.

 

I'd throw in a CCleaner registry run in there before the system restore- maybe it'll find the orphans and kill 'em. Just make sure to back up the registry like it suggests.

 

A registry scrub will probably work.

 

There's another step. Something to do with control panel/network and sharing center/change adapter settings

Right click the wireless adapter, select "properties"

Click "Configure", select the "advanced" tab.

Make sure the first 2 lines [both start with 802.11] are set to "auto", not "20 Mhz only"

There's a post floating around here somewhere explaining it but I can't lay my hands on it for the life of me.

I'm thinking there was something else in there to adjust, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was ><