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Need help swapping the wifi card in my Acer Aspire One.

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Alrite people, here is my issue.

I bought a DW1390 mini pcie card for my Acer Aspire One (in the hopes to install OSX), however, I am not sure how to install it (the card, not OS X, my friend has that covered).

Any help would be appreciated, I will check back tomorrow morning, as it is late now and I just came back from a vacation, so I have major jet lag. So yea...
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Not sure what I am supposed to be looking at for the second link -.- but +rep anyways
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Not sure what I am supposed to be looking at for the second link -.- but +rep anyways

Second link contains any and all Acer product user manuals. I figured it contained information pertaining to the swapping out/installation of PCI-e cards.
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Second link contains any and all Acer product user manuals. I figured it contained information pertaining to the swapping out/installation of PCI-e cards.
That second link does not help at all about the wifi card.

Anyways, I can get the keyboard off/unscrew everything just fine, EXCEPT, when I try to unscrew the 2 screws that are under the rubber feet, they feel like they are glued in place, and I cannot for the life of me unscrew them... SO FRUSTRATING!

Also, I thought I broke the keyboard when I got it off because when I pulled out the ribbon, a black piece fell off, and I didn't know where it went at first (took like 10 minutes to figure it out that it had a lever-type role).

Any help that you could possibly think of to get the screw out from under the feet would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot btw.
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Sorry that second link didn't help. You would think they have all the information about adding, subtracting, disassembling and reassembling your computer in the manual... Oh well.

Hmm. I can't say that I've tried this on my laptop - but have you tried a power drill? If you're familiar with automotive parts, most vital bolts have a type of semi-adhesive referred to as thread locker to ensure parts don't loosen up over time, there may be something similar on those screws.

I was searching and found this:


Is that what you're looking at?

I found it here:
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/s...ighlight=bb320

I'm sorry, I'm not too familiar with Acer's line of notebooks
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Originally Posted by Deviance View Post
Sorry that second link didn't help. You would think they have all the information about adding, subtracting, disassembling and reassembling your computer in the manual... Oh well.

Hmm. I can't say that I've tried this on my laptop - but have you tried a power drill? If you're familiar with automotive parts, most vital bolts have a type of semi-adhesive referred to as thread locker to ensure parts don't loosen up over time, there may be something similar on those screws.

I was searching and found this:


Is that what you're looking at?

I found it here:
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/s...ighlight=bb320

I'm sorry, I'm not too familiar with Acer's line of notebooks

Basically I can disassemble the keyboard and that sorta stuff inside, but I cannot unscrew the 2 screws under the feet, they are just too tuff to get at them.
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Swapped the card, now just gotta install Mac OS X to test it out (which I have to download).
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