picture a MacBook Air and your Wi-Fi or
Bluetooth has gone out the likely
culprit is a faulty Wi-Fi card which
handles both the wireless and the
Bluetooth
fortunately replacing it doesn't require
a whole lot of effort and it could save
you from having to buy a whole new
computer hi I'm MJ with iFixit and today
we're going to show you how to replace
the Wi-Fi card in a late 2010 MacBook
Air if you own a 2011 version of this
computer the process is very similar but
of course you're still going to want to
follow the step-by-step instructions and
the repair guide on our site when you're
doing your repair we'll even link to it
down in the description to make it easy
before I get started I'm gonna get all
of my parts and tools together for this
repair I'm going to need a plastic
spudger a t5 Torx driver and a macbook
air pentalobe driver now rather than
using separate drivers I'm just going to
use our 54 piece bit driver kit because
it has both the bits I'm going to need
plus a ton more I'm also going to use an
anti-static wrist strap to protect my
macbook air from any accidental
electrostatic discharge during my repair
and a screw tray because it keeps all
those teeny tiny screws nice and
organized now I've got all the parts and
tools together I can get started by
taking out the ten pentalobe screws that
are holding the bottom case in place
you
now that I've got all those screws out I
can begin to remove the lower case by
grabbing it right between the display
assembly in the lower case and rotating
it towards the front of the computer now
that the lower case is removed the very
first thing we're going to do is
disconnect the battery and really that
should be the first step in any
electronics repair because we don't want
any residual electricity floating around
in there while we're doing our repair to
disconnect it we're going to grab the
little pull tab and pull it out parallel
to the logic board you don't want to
pull up vertically because that'll break
the connector now that the battery is
disconnected I can be get to remove the
wireless card by disconnecting the two
teeny tiny airport and Bluetooth cables
with the help of my spudger okay and now
there's only one screw holding the
wireless card in place so I'll take care
of that now that that screw is out I can
begin to remove the wireless card which
is pretty firmly held in place in its
socket
I like to wiggle it left and right like
I'm slowly walking it out of its socket
after that's disconnected all I have to
do is install my new wireless card and
reassemble my computer of course you can
find all of the parts and tools used for
this and many other repairs at
ifixit.com and if you run into any
problems during your repairs there are
lots of solutions and the MacBook Air
repair guide on our site if you want to
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