Aspire V 3-331, defective contact on wireless chip

Pinie

Ciao a tutti,

my laptop seem to have a defective contact on the wireless device: sometimes I have wireless, sometimes Win 8.1 (different installations) tell me that there is no wireless device. Can anybody give me some hints ...
- where (in laptop) the chip is localized
- how to repair it

THX

Pinie

brummyfan2

Hi,
It could be the loose antenna cable or the WiFi module is not seated properly, you need to remove 10 screws to take off the back cover, the WiFi is situated in between the battery and the fan.

brummyfan2

Hi,
Could you please post the make and model of your WiFi card and the driver version, go to Device manager, expand Network adapters, highlight and right click the WiFi, select properties, go to Driver tab and find the driver version.

Pinie

Hi brummyfan2,

THX a lot for your attention on my problem ! I can provide some information with attached foto, but it seems to me, that it will not be very helpful, because (at the moment) the wireless device is not found (see 2.), so I'm not surprised, that it does not appear in the device manager (1.). I made an additional check with tool HWInfo, see 3.
maybe not helpful, too.

As I said, sometimes it works (device present), sometimes not (not present). As soon my capricious laptop decides to find & show the device, I will update the information (here in this thread).

Buon Natale from earthquake town ( L'Aquila, Italy

brummyfan2

Hi,
It could be the loose antenna cable or the WiFi module is not seated properly, you need to remove 10 screws to take off the back cover, the WiFi is situated in between the battery and the fan.

Pinie

my comment is ignored, = I get repeatedly "You have to be around for a little while longer before you can post links". I have removed the link out of the comment but the error msg remains.

Make a new try tomorrow

Pinie

I pressed the contacts at the WLAN-chip, moved back and forth and WLAN was back again.

@brummyfan2 : Thank you very much, It's a big relief to have my box working back

Pinie

brummyfan2

Hi Pinie,
You are most welcome 

Pinie

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I'm a German and I prefer the terribility of earthquakes (in Italy) instead of the human coldness of German World War terribility  (not one, but 2 (!!!) of them).

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