How to enable Wireless Studio XPS

[Mentos]

I am trying to configure the studio XPS for my desktop PC, I tried out many different things, also even from the manual but Whenever I enable wireless switch, my computer crashes. It does not depend on OS since it even crashes during BIOS. I've just unplugged the wireless card antenna cables and it works perfectly now. OS sees the wireless card but of course no signal at all.

[Billie]

The only clue I can give is that: "before the problem occurred, I hold the case just below the fingerprint reader (near wifi switcher button) and raise the computer. Dell Wireless WLAN release for DW1397 and DW 1510 Half MiniCard Level of Importance: RecommendedThis file may include updates from a previous release. Further,I heart a cracking sound (not sure)". I am not sure about this cracking sound. I may have cracked the motherboard. However this does not sound reasonable since everything works perfect, except wireless.

[Baser-X]

Well... It depends on what wireless card you ordered for your 1340. To review the details and Criticality of previous releases, click on Other Versions. dell Studio XPS Laptop 1640 Dell Wireless WLAN 1397 Half MiniCard. You only need to manually set the wireless adapter to use 40MHz in 2.4GHz (which is changing the 2.4GHz band setting from 20MHz to Auto) if your wireless card is Intel WiFi Link 5100 or 5300.

[Wilbur]

The Studio XPS 1640 will provide, for the same $1199 price tag, a similar configuration, aside from two major differences. The advantage of not so crowded 5GHz band. But since your 1510 is only a 2 antennas wireless card, then your current 2 antennas WRT150N and the 3x2 antennas WRT610N should give the same 270 (or maybe 300) Mbps wireless N connections. It sports a larger 16-inch WLED LCD screen, capable of a 1366 by 768 resolution, powered by an ATI Mobility Radeon M86XT graphics card, with 512MB of memory.