Aero 13 WiFi card swap

[Straky98]

My Aero 13 has the Realtek 8852AE wifi card with 2 antenna cables and recently I've been having a lot of problems with the card.At first there was the "no connections are available" bug after sleep.That was easily solvable by esetting the network adapter or rebooting.Now after the bios update to F.08(don't know if it's related or not) I've been getting a BSOD with Internal_Power_Error  once a week with no Wifi after rebooting and the WiFi card was hidden in Device Manager with Code 45 in proprieties.Last time I had to reseat the card to fix the problem.

My question is : will changing the Realtek Card with the Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 work or will I have a BIOS problem?

And if so is the Intel a reliable card with good speeds and low packet loss?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Chapter 3 of the service manual indicates that the Intel AX200 Wi-Fi card is not one of the supported Wi-Fi cards.

Maintenance and Service Guide (hp.com)

There is no one here that can tell you if the AX200 will work or not.

You will have to experiment if you want.

The only advice I can provide is to make sure you buy this model card with this HP part number, because HP used this model card in their notebooks with the AMD Ryzen 4xxx processors and I think maybe a couple of models with the Ryzen 5xxx processors like yours.

Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 ax 2×2 + Bluetooth 5.0 MU-MIMO M.2 2230 non-vPro   HP part # L35282-005.

That model card will have the best chance of working.

Make sure you first uninstall the Realtek Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapters in the device manager and check the uninstall driver box before installing the Intel card.