Airport card not installed mac mini

I ask because many eBay sellers sell parts without testing them, even though they may state "tested".

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Unfortunately many sellers just figure it's worth saving the time required to thoroughly test everything, and put up with a return every once in a while. Probably one in three spare parts I've bought on eBay has been bad. I don't think it's the Airport cables, because if they were bad it shouldn't cause the Airport to not show installed at all. And you've wiped the OS, so you know it's not that. It all points to the Airport card itself, or possibly the other card underneath I don't personally have experience with that one. Before spending anymore money I would try the following:.

I also get a can of compressed air and blow all connectors just to be on safe side. If you suspect heat download a monitor app to see if it shows the machine getting warm, I like iStat for this sort of thing. The other thing is to try and note times when you start and times of failure to see if it is the same length or varying. It will help with knowing if you have fixed it.

I had exactly the same problem as stated above.

Also tried the reset steps without success. But I have possible cause and a solution. I opened up my MacBook Pro 17 and started it up with the keyboard lifted off. While pinging in a terminal window I could see that the connection was dropped when I applied slight pressure with my fingertip on the airport card.

The airport card also disappeared from my system so I had produced the same fault as I experienced before. When doing this I could also hear some electrical squeaking noises. I disconnected the antennas, unscrewed and reseated the airport card. The yellow tape is difficult to remove, I cut it in half on the spot to be able to reseat the card.

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When examining the keyboard I could see that it had a slight bend in it downwards toward the motherboard and that was probably causing me to apply pressure on the airport card when I rested my hands on the keyboard to type, or, sometimes even by itself. When putting the keyboard back on, I made a slight bend in it backwards especially around the area of the airport card to get some more space between there. It is now running without any problems, and I make sure not to lift the computer with only the one hand on the airport card side.

My wifi stopped working. Just keeps saying turn wifi on, but it won't turn on. One thing you said interested me.

Just before this happened, I was about to set my computer down, and my sister moved something and asked me to set it in a different place which caused me to hold it in one hand longer than usual. I rarely hold it in one hand. Never really thought about it. Maybe I pressed down on something when I did that? It was working before that, and I had put it to sleep. When I opened it at her house, I couldn't connect, and the wifi signal was blank.

No wifi since then.

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Any suggestions? I've already done all things you said: Now I'm trying new airport update downloaded two days ago and testing if the problem persist. I've also installed iStat to monitor the airport temperature. There are no special conditions for the airport crash, the length of time is varies each time and the program I'm using when it goes down is different every time. I've already replaced the airport card and the problem persist. With the first airport card, the mac was fine, maybe till I've done an upgrade, and then the airport stopped working, so I've decided to replace it and with the new card will have the problems described above.

When I bought the new airport card I've checked if the Apple's seal of approval was intact and it was so I hope that the card was new when I bought it. Do you have an Apple store in your area? I'd take it in, and cross your fingers and hope you get a good tech who will do some free testing. They have special diagnostic tools that are specific to Apple that might be able to give you a clearer picture where the problem is. My Airport works well at startup and after a random time it goes off.

When it goes off the only way I can get it to work again is to restart the Mac. I thought it can be a software problem too and I've format my system with Snow Leopard. You would need to crack it open and replace that card. Also sounds like the slot loading optical drive has failed. No chance of a bump whilst not in use?

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Here is a how-to from ifixit: Using OS X. Thanks for the replies. Yes, it is the '09 3. I'm going to try some of those things. I did try the apple hardware test and that showed everything normal. If this helps at all, the drive will attempt to read discs 5 or 6 times before it ejects. Hi, I have the same problem now on my Mac Book Pro.

I bought the laptop June with OS X version It's annoying because I can't even update any software. I recommend you to post a new question here: It happened to me today, it was fine last night and then this morning it says "No airport card installed". But luckily I've fixed it, I turned my mac book pro off, give it a rest for 2 - 5 minutes, I gave it smooth bumps on my bed, shake it couple of times Not sure if this is a permanent fix, but it has at least worked for me.

I had the no airport card problem. All you need to do is " buy a new airport card '' and have it installed.