How To Cool Down Your Wificard Repair Guide

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                          50 seconds - 4 minutes            

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• How to cool down your wificard
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Step 1

              How to cool down your wificard               

• Carefully take off the top

Carefully take off the top

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Step 2

• unscrew the keyboard

unscrew the keyboard

Step 3

• Pull the keyboard out

Pull the keyboard out

Step 4

• Carefully unplug the Aux and Main off the WiFi card

Carefully unplug the Aux and Main off the WiFi card

Step 5

• unscrew it

unscrew it

Step 6

• Add a lot of NON CONDUCTIVE thermal compound

Add a lot of NON CONDUCTIVE thermal compound

Step 7

• screw the card back on

screw the card back on

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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xpmule - Oct 29, 2017

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The thermal paste is intended to *help transfer heat from one surface to another. What is shown here is sticking the backside of the WiFi card to a plastic film on the motherboard.. there is no way for the heat to dissipate on that spot. Further more the heat is not even coming off the backside of the WiFi card.. This guide will NOT help cool down your chip. Further more I took apart my L300 07N and it has an Atheros based chip not a “Dell” Intel model as seen in the pictures here.. and.. the wires on my chip were connected the opposite of the pictures here. So maybe he has a different model than me? and it probably won’t make much difference which way the antennaes wires are connected anyway. I was looking at this for an upgrade.. i put in the Intel 4965AGN MM1 Full size PCIe card and it works great, it had 3 pins and i used pins 1 & 3 (Grey on 1 and black on 3) all 3 are antenna connections on the Intel. My 5G speed tests were fast and the radio switch still works and got no weird blinking light issues.

G 2 - Sep 7, 2018

look mate its actually transferring heat from the wifi card to the other side of the motherboard which is covered by the two heat pipes which transfer and dissipate the heat. Please come with proof next time instead of accusing me