I messed one thig up: As I was trying to disconnect the wireless antenna cables, I used – probably – rather too much force and ripped the whole thing off of one of the connections.

Most likely your wireless connection can work with only one cable connected. Make sure it’s connected to the main contact on the wireless card.

Also, where the hell are speaker connectors? I’ve been getting “No audio output installed” error and I want to check if it’s lose or not.

First of all, test your laptop with headphones. If there is no sound in headphones, most likely your problem is not related to speakers.

I’m having a bit of a problem…my internet isn’t working. Nothing shows.
My computer will identify that the card is there but nothing shows up under Network and Sharing Centre.

First of all, take a look in the device manager. Do you see network adapters (Ethernet and Wireless) in there?
If both adapter appear in the device manager but not in the network connections, this could be software related problem.
Last week I had two laptops with very similar problem. I tried reinstalling drivers, removing entries from the device manager, run winsock fix but nothing helped. I had to reinstall Windows on both laptops.

Here’s what you can try. Boot the laptop from a live Linux CD (try Ubuntu Linux) and see if you can use Ethernet and wireless in there. If both network connections work fine in Ubuntu Linux but not in Windows, this is software related problem.

I’m nervous to do a backup and may lose most of my information. I’m a writer and have half a book on there but backup’s all messed up.

Your data on the hard drive still should be fine.

Do I have to get one of those wrist straps if I’m replacing my wireless card? My computer will identify that the card is there but nothing shows up under Network and Sharing Centre.

More info on my problem.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistahardware/thread/46396598-20b4-457a-b435-e0eecae05bb2

Please help ASAP, I’m nervous to do a backup and may lose most of my information. I’m a writer and have half a book on there but backup’s all messed up. I’m scared I have a virus/worm.

However, I messed one thig up: As I was trying to disconnect the wireless antenna cables, I used – probably – rather too much force and ripped the whole thing off of one of the connections. Now I need to go buy me an external wireless adapter, because I believe that this is unfixable. Thankfully, these wireless sticks come quite cheap nowadays.

FYI my Pavilion dv6500 had three coax cables to the wireless card: black, gray, green.

You have three cables because you have a better Wi-Fi card installed 802.11 a/b/g/n which requires an extra antenna cable.