I successfully installed an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 wireless card by modifying the whitelist in the BIOS. I've compiled this step-by-step guide with references as I had trouble finding a similar resource online.

Living in Toronto, the 2.4GHz WiFi band is over saturated and my best wireless throughput was roughly 16Mbps, now with 5GHz Wireless AC, I get an average of 700Mbps. I decided not to upgrade to the latest BIOS and to attempt the whitelist modification on my current version, G4ET62WW (2.04).

There are two flash memory chips, MX25L6406E (8MB) and MX25L3206E (4MB) (Under frame), according to various resources, I need to flash the 4MB chip. There is also another flash memory chip on the underside which contains the bios settings and password which I don't need to touch.

There are forums for whitelist removal, such as www.bios-mods.com but I wanted to figure out how to modify the whitelist myself and to only use the forum as a last resort if I'm unable to make it work myself. (Also, I'd still need to figure out the bios reading and writing)

VID:PID's

Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200 [8086:0891] (original)

Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 [8086:08B1], Secondary: [8086:4070] (upgrade) Bluetooth: [8087:07DC] (built into the wireless card)



If you are looking for more information, or have any questions, please feel free to contact me and I can do my best to answer.