Can I upgrade my wifi card and RAM memory?

[DW1982]

Hello,      

I have a HP Pavilion 15-e011ed which has Ralink RT3290 wifi card and I want to upgrade my wifi card for a dual band wifi card, and I want to upgrade my RAM memory to 8 MB RAM. What are my options? 

Thanks for helping me...

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Yes, you can do both.

Here is the link to the service manual for your notebook.

The memory upgrade info can be found in chapter 1 (2 x 4 GB is supported).

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03939658

Wifi card...according to some unofficial specs I found online, your notebook has an Intel Core i7 processor, correct?

If so, you can upgrade to this wifi card...But first check to make sure there are two antenna cables connected to the Ralink wifi card in there now.   There should be.

Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 802.11 ac 2x2 WiFi + BT 4.0    HP Part # 710661-001

The card is readily available on eBay or Amazon, and doesn't cost much at all.

Do your search by the HP part number, not by the model number of the wireless card.

Then you can find the memory and wifi card R & R procedures in the above service manual in chapter 5.

Before installing the Intel wifi card, I recommend you first uninstall the Ralink wifi and bluetooth drivers in the device manager, and if there is any Ralink bluetooth software in the windows control panel>Programs, uninstall that too.

Then shut down, unplug the PC, remove the battery and replace the wifi card.