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    adding wifi to inspiron 8200

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by afhstingray, Nov 27, 2009.

  1. afhstingray

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    Hi,

    I have a fully functional Inspiron 8200, and a dead Inspiron 8600.

    As such, would be great if i could transplant the intel prowireless card from the i8600 to the i8200.

    there only appears to be one antenna connector on the 8200, so i plugged that into the socket labeled "main".

    it dosent seem to be working, the BIOS lists it as "Unknown".

    Any suggestions?

    cheers
     
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    What chipset does the 8200 have?
     
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    i think its the 845MP.


    cant remember what the i8600 had, but it had the first centrino components.
     
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    I dont know what the problem is.
    Could be that your chipset can't support the card.
    Also maybe you need to update the BIOS.
     
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    device manager can see the card. however it has the exclamation mark. the error is : the device cannot start

    any ideas?
     
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    Does it say "code 12" or something similar?
     
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    cant remember, i've taken it back out now. running the latest bios, it said "unknown" in bios, however device manager saw it correctly, driver installed.

    the error was the device cannot start. might have been code 10?
     
    afhstingray, Nov 27, 2009
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