Is the wifi part of the board on the mac mini

Hello
Recently my wifi was behaving erratically, took the Mac mini to apple, it appeared the hard drive was the problem, hence new hard drive was put in. A week goes by, wonderful, everything is working perfectly, done diagnostic check all settings IP address etc all present and correct, until today. The wifi does not work, no settings are seen when you go to do the diagnostic check. I keep clicking on the wifi icon on the menu bar and selecting my name on the drop down list, nothing happens as it did before changing the drive. Surely this cannot be a drive problem.
If it is the wifi, can I have the wifi changed or will it mean the whole board.
Thanks.
rachealfromva

I recently added a SSD to my mini & re-attaching the WIFI antenna was a bit of a pain. In the new mini you must remove the wifi antenna to gain access to the harddrive in my case I had to pretty much fully dismantle the mini cause I was replacing the bottom drive.
At any rate if Apple did the repair I would take it back in to them at let them know that the WIFI hasn't been working since the drive replacement.
Here is whats the guts look like (not a place for people with large hands):

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