Introduction
Problems with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth? You may have a faulty AirPort card. Use this guide to replace the AirPort card in your Mac mini Late 2014.
Tools
Parts
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The bottom cover is clipped onto three screw posts.
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Pry near, but not right on the screw posts.
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Remove the following TR6 screws from the antenna plate:
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Three 4.1 mm screws
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Three 1.9 mm screws
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With the I/O ports facing you, flip the antenna plate to the right to allow access to the antenna cable connector.
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Use the point of a spudger to lift the antenna connector straight up off its socket on the airport card.
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Pull the AirPort card straight out of its socket on the logic board and remove it from the Mac mini.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
4 comments
Thanks. Took all of 20 minutes start to finish to upgrade my broken NIC.
Hmm, look like an M.2 interface, could an M.2 SSD be installed instead?
Can confirm that the airport card for the 2015 Macbook Pro fits and functions perfectly as a replacement if you can’t find the mac mini one.
Read Me First: I purchased an SSD drive directly from Crucial and, of course, it came uninitialized. After going thru the entire tear down, installing the new drive, and rebuilding the mini, it refused to recognize the new drive. So, of course, I had to re-tear it down, remove the new drive, insert it into an external housing and format it using my Macbook. After that the mini recognized the new drive. A word to the wise: format the new drive before installing it.
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