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zbugz
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 Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 5:49 am Post subject: What are these slots for sony vaio vpcs13x9r (pcg-51111v) ? |
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Hi All ! I have sony vaio vpcs13x9r (pcg-51111v)
What are these slots (1 and 2) for?
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rjluna2
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 6:46 am Post subject: |
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I think:
1) PC Bus card slot.
2) Mini SATA Solid State Drive |
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zbugz
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 11:08 am Post subject: |
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| rjluna2 wrote: | I think:
1) PC Bus card slot.
2) Mini SATA Solid State Drive |
1. Can I insert a 3g modem into this slot |
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Calbris
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 11:08 am Post subject: Re: What are these slots for sony vaio vpcs13x9r (pcg-51111v |
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| zbugz wrote: | | What are these slots (1 and 2) for? |
1) ExpressCard/34 cards. It's an old expansion slot, something like the BC628 could fit in there to provide two USB 3.0 ports.
2) Full-size MiniPCI Express cards with a USB 2.0 interface, such as the Qualcomm Gobi 2000 modem. These are not PCI Express cards, they are actually USB 2.0 cards in a MiniPCI Express form factor.
The other side of your Vaio's motherboard has a half-size MiniPCI Express card slot with a PCI Express 2.0 interface. I believe that is where your Wi-Fi card is located.
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Chriscosmo12
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 11:16 am Post subject: |
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EDIT: dang, I took way too much time to type up my message and others beat me to it. Here's my two cents at least:
Looking up the model I managed to find a manual. It appears (1) is an ExpressCard slot. It also seems that the laptop had a SIM card option, so (2) could be for a mobile network module, or I've seen it be used for Bluetooth, but there is no antenna nearby for wireless signal. (2) could just be for an optional mSATA SSD cache in this case, as I've seen laptops from this era also come with those.
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zbugz
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 11:31 am Post subject: |
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| Chriscosmo12 wrote: | | (2) could just be for an optional mSATA SSD cache in this case, as I've seen laptops from this era also come with those. |
The laptop has Bluetooth. |
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zbugz
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 11:33 am Post subject: Re: What are these slots for sony vaio vpcs13x9r (pcg-51111v |
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| Calbris wrote: | | zbugz wrote: | | What are these slots (1 and 2) for? |
2) Full-size MiniPCI Express cards with a USB 2.0 interface, such as the Qualcomm Gobi 2000 modem. These are not PCI Express cards, they are actually USB 2.0 cards in a MiniPCI Express form factor.
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The other side of your Vaio's motherboard has a half-size MiniPCI Express card slot with a PCI Express 2.0 interface. I believe that is where your Wi-Fi card is located. |
The laptop has wifi 5 ghz |
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Calbris
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zbugz
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok, i'm chek it |
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mavroxur
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| Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| As said above, one is Expresscard/34 and the other is Mini PCI |
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zbugz
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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I checked, there is a slot for the SIM card.
Do I need to insert a SIM card into the slot and buy a modem in the miniPCI Express card slot with an antenna?
I also put a miniPCI Express ssd drive there and it didn't work.
I also set jumper 2 and 4 to the on position. Is there a description of these jumpers?
P.S. Where can I get the latest bios for my laptop?
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Calbris
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2024 7:54 am Post subject: Re: What are these slots for sony vaio vpcs13x9r (pcg-51111v |
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| zbugz wrote: | | Do I need to insert a SIM card into the slot and buy a modem in the miniPCI Express card slot with an antenna? |
Yes and yes.
| zbugz wrote: | | I also put a miniPCI Express ssd drive there and it didn't work. |
MiniSATA/mSATA SSDs will not work in MiniPCI Express slots with a USB 2.0 interface. They will work only if the MiniPCI Express slot has a SATA interface wired in, which your Vaio does not have.
| zbugz wrote: | | I also set jumper 2 and 4 to the on position. Is there a description of these jumpers? |
It should be stated in the schematic, unfortunately I don't have it.
| zbugz wrote: | | Where can I get the latest bios for my laptop? |
I believe this is the latest BIOS version available.
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zbugz
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2024 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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Which modem should I buy for 4g ?
I also got a wimax after switching jumpers |
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zbugz
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 5:10 am Post subject: |
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| There are three antenna outputs on this modem: main, GPS and aux. What is each antenna for? GPS is clear for what. |
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