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Well I have some good news, I am typing this from my repaired HP nc4000 laptop! :-)
I found someone who was able to remove the bios chip and fit a socket + new bios chip and this fortunately has restored my laptop to fully functional condition - it is such a relief!
To keep costs down I removed the ...

Well disaster has struck!

After playing around with the ADDCC ver3 and the pdf Tutorial and ver2 Video Tutorial again I managed to seemingly update the BIN file with the ammended wireless n card details and adjust the CRC checksum so the ADDCC ver3 showed the patched file as matching the original ...

Hi nando4,

Thanks for your reply.
I do get the error 104 message if I boot with the Atheros card already in the PC.
On the other hand when doing the inserting the Atheros card from Windows Standby and coming out of standby I can confirm the wireless n card works ok.
I have spent several hours ...

Hi everyone, this is a great thread and gives me hope that I can upgrade my HP nc4000 laptop from an HP Intel 2200BG card to an Atheros AR5008 802.11n card.

The current HP Intel card details are:-

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&SUBSYS_12F5103C&REV_05\3&61AAA01&0&48

The new Atheros card when installed ...