WIFI, No hardware installed on initial boot

Hi,
my friend has a Late 2013 MBP 13" retina
2.4gz Corei5
4gb ram
120gb
os 10.10.1
every day on the 1st boot there an X over the wifi in the top right corner and it says no hardware installed, after a reboot it comes back. so every days she has to boot her comp twice...
i tried :
reset Pram
reset smc
repair disk prermissions
repair disk
remove network configuration and preference files
Reinstall os
remouve wifi harware
manually configure wifi harware to 1453
creeated new location
reset Pram again
reset smc again
and no luck...
Apple won't help even if her comp is still under apple care, she spent hours on the phone... suggestions??
Thank you !!!!

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