Would like to upgrade WLAN on HP Envy 17t-j100 Quad

Sorry if this is a repeat question. Can I upgrade the wireless LAN card for this laptop to support 5Ghz standard? Even though this is a b/g/n card, it wil not recognize the 5Ghz band from my Netgear AC1450...it's obviously not dual band.
it came with the Realtek RTL8188EE 802.11bgn Wi-Fi Adapter. Great laptop so far but this issue is a bit disappointing.
if it is upradeable, what does HP offer that is compatible.
HP Envy 17t-j100 Quad

Hi:
Yes, the Realtek RTL8188EE 802.11bgn is only a single band (2.4 GHz) wireless N card.
It appears that HP has removed the BIOS whitelist on these newer models so you should be able to install any wireless card you want in that model.
Chapter 3 of the service manual lists the cards that HP supports with the part numbers.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04091762.pdf
I would make sure your current card has 2 antenna leads attached to it.
I have heard on some models, (not necessarily yours) that on some of those low end cards, there is only 1 antenna in the PC.
That could be a problem (unless you don't mind tearing the whole notebook and display apart to add the additional antenna).

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I bought the Hp Envy 17t-j100 Quad Edition Notebook PC a while back and i was wondering if i could upgrade the graphics card on it. When you buy the laptop if gives you an option, you can either buy the Intel Deticated Graphics or the Nvidia Geforce GT 740 and i decided to buy the Nvidia GT 740 because i heard the integrated graphics were not that good for playing games. So i was wondering if i could somehow take out the NVidia Geforce GT 740 and replace with a better graphics card, Would that be possible?
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I just purchased a HP ENVY 15t-j100 Quad Edition Notebook PC with Windows 7 (February 2014).
It comes with 802.11bgn 1×1 WLAN module, which is not satisfactory so I would like to upgrade the WLAN to an Intel 7260ac.
According to the user manual, the following two parts are the only WLAN whitelisted by the BIOS:
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Hi Arnaud_, welcome to the HP Forums. Unfortunately if the parts are not in the user manual I cannot guarantee they will work. You can try to buy it from HP PartSurfer.
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Installing driver for Envy 17t-j100 Quad Edition

Hi all,
I wiped the hard drive of my envy, and moved a cloned Windows XP image onto it. On startup, I get a 0x7b (inaccessible boot device - blue screen) error.
I'm pretty sure it's a hard drive controller error - i've ruled out just about everything else. Trouble is, because I can't yet boot into windows, i can't install the driver.
The Windows XP image has IDE drivers installed, and the BIOS is (i think) stuck on a RAID configuration.
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the provided .exe
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DPisnt
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Impossible?
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USB 3.0 not supported
Nvidia not supported
Intel HD not supported
etc
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http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
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Call Apple Sales...in the US: 1-800-MY-APPLE. Or Support... 1-800-275-2273
Other countries...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
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