Studio 1537 & wireless card

I just wan an auction made for a studio 1537, and I am quite impressed with it (see my signature). I want to replace my second noisy Amilo 1667 which has 6 years now.

..I have two Intel 6300 Ultimate Wifi N Cards‎ and one 6200N (ordered one from dell & they sent me three of 6300N . I tried to replace the one is in the laptop (dell wireless 1397), but did not work. Do i do something wrong? I tried first the 6200N but no response from the system. It will work the 6300N? I have not tried yet!
I like much better the brightness of 1537 LDC than 1647.
The battery still going over four hours.

The power button, the edge of it, is glued, i think it was loose and made it still and there is a few white spots on Lcd, unnoticeable, maybe due some pressure on the cover case, i do not care as far as is working great. It has only 15 months old.

..I did a test converting some files with both machines using the ConvertXtoDVD. I put 10 avi files, all the same to see which is gonna be doing faster. First the 1537 was ahead of it with around 10 minutes. I stopped it and start it again. I left to finish and the 1647 was just 5 minutes ahead.
So 1537 is still worth more than €250 a bought it.
One more thing, i did a fresh install of windows 7 Pro on it, came with vista ultimate, it has a service tag too....the hdd is ST9160414ASG Momentus.
I noticed in vista it shown only 150Gb, after i format it & installed win_7_pro is the same. When i format it i had the only option of one partition of 150gb.
Has anyone any idea where are the 10Gb gone. Are hidden somewhere?
I update the bios to the latest one A11.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

 

1) The wireless thing... this is just one of those cases where newer wifi cards don't have any reason to not work... but they don't. I don't think there's much you can do about it if you've updated the BIOS, reinstalled Windows, etc.

2) The hard drive thing... it's nominally 160 Gigabytes, but Windows is reporting the capacity in Gibibytes, which is always going to be smaller.

 

I have tried the wireless 6300N and, spot on, it worked. First the system tried to find the driver and did not find, than i installed the latest one from Intel and worked. I have connected the third antenna that was inside too. So, it has three antennas, not like xps 1647 two!
The 6200N might not be compatible with the system (was taken out from 1647), even the driver could not install at all.
Now everything is fine.

 

Dell does not whitelist WLAN cards. As long as you install drivers and get the right height (full vs half) you should be good to go.