Airport only connects with G5 door removed ... weak signal?

The Airport Extreme card in my G5 has trouble connecting to my wireless network when I move my tower away from my network base station ... it seems to be a weak signal that improves only if I remove the G5 case door. I reseated the the card and double-checked that the card wire was connected. Is the card going bad?

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