Acer Chromebook R11 Wireless Card Replacement

Written By: Sean Harter
  • Comments: 6
Acer Chromebook R11 Wireless Card Replacement

Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

4

Time Required

15 minutes

Introduction

In order to replace the wireless card in your Acer Chromebook R11, follow these steps. You should wear an anti-static wrist strap to avoid damaging your device.

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    • Remove eleven 7.23mm Phillips #1 screws from the back panel.

    • Using a spudger, carefully separate back panel from main body.

    • The back panel is still attached to the main body by a ribbon cable. Use care not to damage the cable.

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    • Disconnect the two antenna cables (one black and one white) that are attached to the wireless card.

    • Note the position of the black and white antenna cables on the card.

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    • Remove the single 2.85 mm Phillips #1 screw that secures the wireless card.

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    • Carefully slide the wireless card out of its socket on the motherboard.

Conclusion

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

Author

Sean Harter

Member since: 15/02/17

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6 comments

I think you are confusing a WiFi module and a CPU...

Miles Raymond -

Sorry, incorrect. The cpu is on the mother board, not connected by slots. You may also notice the small brass connecteros on the left side of the wireless card. Those are u.fl connectors used for the wifi antennas. CPUs never ever have these

T R -

I need some help. My chromebook has a 2.4ghz processor but I want to upgrade it to a 5ghz. Is this what I should follow to do that? does it take an AC processor or only N? Will it be compatible if my processor is a broadcom and I want to upgrade to intel? Please let me know as soon as possible because my chroembook is really slow even though it comes with 32gb instead of 2gb.

John Jacobs -

Hi, also have the R11 bluetooth glitch. I’d like to try and preserve warranty as in the CI so can’t easily send it back for repair.

Is this likely to work with any microPCIe card or does it have to be the exact unit specified, believe there are 5 GHz variants now which weren’t available when originally launched.

Andre De Guerin -

Hey there! I could use some help. The WiFi won’t turn on. This happened on my C720 as well. Does that mean the wireless card is damaged or is it a loose connection? I’m not to savy at these things. Both Chromebooks worked until I started having the wifi issues. I tried to reset the C720, reload the OS, neither didn’t work and it’s been sitting on the shelf the past couple of years. although I just turned it on today, same issue with the OS.

I bought the R11 as a replacement and it worked fine up until last week. It doesn’t recognize wi-fi and it the wi-fi tab keeps defaulting back to the off position. Any ideas about how to approach this?

Shirley Vretson -

Hi. Yes its probably a bad control transistor as R11 can’t use Wifi 2.4 and bluetooth at the same time reliably due to a shared antenna it seems like the power availability was marginal to begin with.

I had this happen on my workhorse Samsung mini but looks like the main cause is the same.

Hint: Changing the card is a good bet and they use them on quite a few “unibody” machines as long as the card is in the compatibility list it should work. Don’t use one with any sort of damage though.

If it won’t work even with replacement card it could be worth locating and replacing the bad component.

Andre De Guerin -