Replacing intel centrino 2230 N with 7260 AC

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as title says I'm looking to replace my 2230 for 7260 i checked the specs of both and they match for everything so all I would have to do is connect the existing antenna cables to the new one and install software then I'm good to go? all that's at the end of the antenna cables are thin flexible metal for reception in my lid frame this wouldn't need to be changed? haha sounds dumb :p
 
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White listing is when manufacturers embed a list of allowed devices into BIOS or other firmware. Without being very good at modifying software such as BIOS, you will need to do some research via Google, or hope somebody else in forums has experience with the exact make and model of computer you're hoping to perform the upgrade on. It may also be worthwhile to contact Sony support and ask them if they can say one way or the other if the replacement would be possible.
 
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okay Thanks I checked in bios and nothing is greyed out though there's not much to select from mainly passwords UEFI/legacy boot and intel virtulization other than that nothing for wireless/buetooth. that's silly manufacturers to do this considering for desktops they customize them a lot to pci cards pcie cards etc would this whitelist affect changing the cpu? I'll try research my model otherwise for 30 bucks I'll just try it and if it's blocked I'll resell it.
 
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I have done this transtition from legacy atheros or intel PCI-e cards to a 802.11ac Broadcom card made by AzureWave. I had no issues there. Make sure you have the drivers on the disk or something like USB accessible media before to plug a new card.
 
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If you already have the card, you can always try swapping it in and seeing if it works. It's not going to break anything as the two wireless devices are electrically compatible. If it's whitelisted, what you will most likely experience is the wireless indicator (if your laptop has one) will not light up and Windows won't detect your wireless device after the swap.

If it does work, well, just install the latest drivers from Intel and enjoy your better connectivity. :)

On a side note, be careful with the antenna connections on the wireless card as if you pull them up in a twisted fashion they can actually take the tiny plug off of the wireless card with them. That style of connection, while it holds and conducts well, is not meant to survive removal and reattachment more than 20-some odd times.
 
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I've ordered the card earlier this week so it will come in early next week if not today. hopefully it will work as the 2230 sucks, my laptop has a wireless light next to the power battery hdd etc lights and I'll download the drivers before pulling it out I have ethernet too anyways. I only plan on carefully pulling these antenna cables off once.

I'll let you know if it works or not as soon as I find out.
 
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Got the ac 7260 card today and.................................... It didn't work :( wireless light didn't come on as soon as power led does this gives me the assumption the card was faulty or blocked via bios probably blocked I'd say, however device manager picked up the wifi part but not bluetooth as soon as i switched back to the 2230 n card the wireless light came on with the power led and device manager picked up wifi and bluetooth. I have came across the tape pin# 20 and 51 for sony vaio sve14XXXXX higher models than mine, but they are on the same motherboard and bios version.

Any suggestions?
 
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Just giving an update the wifi card was accepted and all is working great :) Sony confirmed they don't use whitelist in their bios the hardware support rep I was talking to said they don't support upgrades (obviously) but they aren't blocked and he wouldn't tell if if the item worked but advised to go within the socket specs for cpu and wifi as if he wasn't allowed to tell me but was playing tricky haha. I still had issues within win7 it wasn't till after i upgraded to win8.1 pro also the tape is removed from the card. wireless light works too. It seems as though it was the vaio smart connect blocking it and the sony firmware parser these didn't get installed with win8 I had to manually install drivers then the sony wireless state device popped up and I had to install that too it was never there in win7 :/
 
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