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    is it possible to replace the wireless card on my 8730w with newer one?

    Discussion in 'HP Business Class Notebooks' started by jarthel, Jun 22, 2011.

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    Im looking at the intel centrino 6300 available on ebay. ty :)
     
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    I don't think so because maybe the BIOS could be saying it does not know it even if hardware and so on are compatible

    but if it dose not depend on BIOS it may work
     
    Sotton, Jun 22, 2011
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    what is the major improvements does intel provide from 5300 to 6300? :)
     
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    Higher bandwidth speed on 802.11n mode.
     
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    Unless the new wifi card is in HP's whitelist, you'll also need an unwhitelisted bios from here to avoid the error-104 unsupported wifi card bios halt.
     
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