wireless card failure

[playlevel6]

my HP Pavilion dv7 laptop was overheating. The coolingfan area needed cleaning. This requires removing the motherboard for access, not very convenient. After reassembly forgot to attach antennas to wireless card. Did that fry the card?

 

[Yakk]

Most probably not, but it probably won't detect any wireless networks either.

 

[corkyg]

Go back and attach them and you'll know.

 

[playlevel6]

Go back and attach them and you'll know.

Thanks for response.the card would not respond after reattaching antennas. Also because HP uses a "whitelist" can only use certain replacements because the BIOS wont recognize third part devices.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Reset BIOS to defaults and see if that helps detect the card.

 

[playlevel6]

Replaced the wifi card with one from HP. Not the cheapest route but other cards would not have been rcognized by the BIOS. My first thought was that operating an rf transmitter without antenna or load would cause failure. My Ham experience taught me to always have a proper load on an amp. If you run any power you would soon see smoke. In this case the output is so small ther is no visible evidence except for failure.