WHat kind of cards go in the PCI Express x1 minicard socket?
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From: Al Dykes on 23 Jan 2010 09:22 What is the PCI Express x1 minicard socket on the machine I'm about to order for? -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
From: Mike Easter on 23 Jan 2010 10:54 Al Dykes wrote: > What is the PCI Express x1 minicard socket on the machine I'm about to > order for? All snippage below; page last modified 2009 Aug. The page lists some specific wifi adapters. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/MiniPCI_Express_slot A MiniPCI Express slot is a version of the PCI-Express x1 slot for Notebooks - Though the slot is MiniPCIe in form factor, it has been crippled to only accept devices with PCI-ID's contained in a BIOS whitelist consisting of the above list of devices (likely not exhaustive and varying depending on the particular system) with the additional requirement that they must carry the Lenovo brand name and consequently cost twice as much. If an unauthorized card is plugged in it gives a 1802 error on initial boot up before it even touches the operating system. (see Problem with unauthorized MiniPCI network card, 1802 with MiniPCIe on t60,same). The workarounds on the first link concerning MiniPCI devices may or may not be directly applicable to the MiniPCIe slot. Anyone who has added non-Lenovo components to this slot either successfully or unsuccessfully is encouraged to provide any relevant details here. -- Mike Easter
From: Al Dykes on 23 Jan 2010 11:02 In article <7s0kdaF4enU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Mike Easter <MikeE(a)ster.invalid> wrote: >Al Dykes wrote: >> What is the PCI Express x1 minicard socket on the machine I'm about to >> order for? > >All snippage below; page last modified 2009 Aug. The page lists some >specific wifi adapters. > >http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/MiniPCI_Express_slot A MiniPCI Express >slot is a version of the PCI-Express x1 slot for Notebooks - Though the Thanks. Oddly, this is a desktop machine. -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
From: Mike Easter on 23 Jan 2010 11:37 Al Dykes wrote: > Thanks. Oddly, this is a desktop machine. Nowhere have you mentioned any identification of the machine in question. Some desktops are like 'nettops' which have the characteristics of a netbook with a hdd in a desktop. -- Mike Easter
From: Mike Easter on 23 Jan 2010 11:48
Mike Easter wrote: > Al Dykes wrote: > >> Thanks. Oddly, this is a desktop machine. > > Nowhere have you mentioned any identification of the machine in > question. Some desktops are like 'nettops' which have the > characteristics of a netbook with a hdd in a desktop. > .... which, incidentally, illustrates the problem with people starting a topic question by typing a question in the subject instead of doing it the right way. Subject: WHat kind of cards go in the PCI Express x1 minicard socket? > What is the PCI Express x1 minicard socket on the machine I'm about to > order for? The right way to start a new topic question is to start your message in the body, not the subject. That body should be composed only of complete sentences and it should provide sufficient background so that the readers don't have to read your mind to figure out what you are talking about. In this case, you didn't say anything about 'the machine I'm about to order', choosing instead to keep that a secret to yourself while asking why the mfr built the mystery machine as they did. Instead, you should name the brand and modelno of the machine you are ordering, then ask your question in the body, then give your new message a very very brief 'title' to reflect the content of the body. -- Mike Easter |