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Posted by Rock on January 3, 2008, 10:55 pm
Please log in for more thread options Dave Martindale wrote:
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>> I wish to change my laptop with a USB 1 to USB2.
>
>> It does have a free mini PCI slot inside and I have been told that one can
>> upgrade to usb2 by putting a usb pci card in. It does NOT have a PMCIA slot.
>
> That sounds difficult. If you find a suitable USB2 mini-PCI card, how
> are you going to connect it to the outside world? Unlike desktop PCI
> cards, there is no back panel space automatically reserved for each PCI
> card and thus no place to have USB jacks exposed to the outside.
>
> Now, if your laptop's USB1 ports are mounted to the case, and connected
> to the motherboard by a flexible cable, and the connector type and
> pinout on this cable is the same on the motherboard and the mini-PCI
> card, and the cable is long enough, then you may be able to move the
> cable from the motherboard to the mini-PCI card and thus make the
> existing USB ports USB2. But that's a lot of "ifs".
>
> On the other hand, if your motherboard USB connectors are soldered to
> the motherboard, you're going to have to unsolder them, or cut
> motherboard traces, in order to wire them to the mini-PCI card.
>
> Dave
Thank you.
For a start I meant 1GB Ram NOT MB!!
Yes I was also wondering about the connector slots however I thought maybe the
mini pci card would change the routing of the usb and turn the existing usb
slots into usb2.
Moving the connectors and all that I think is too much with too much risk into
messing with something else on the mobo.
It looks like I have no choice but to move up. It is a shame as I have gotten
used to this laptop which has not caused me one blink of trouble and I use it
everyday with it staying on through the a/c power for sometimes 2 weeks at a
time. Only had 1 battery change in 6 7 years..
Thanks again and I'll keep watching here for anymore comments..
rock
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