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Presario C500 c551nr - Replacing wireless mini-pcie card with SSD?

post #1 of 5
5/25/09 at 5:19pm
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Hey everyone, wondering if any of you have tried the following:

I'm thinking about picking up a usb wireless n adapter; which means I won't be needing the internal wireless nic. Since that's a mini PCIe slot, I was wondering if anyone has tried replacing that with one of the many SSDs floating around the web...

2 main questions I have about those:

If they're mini-pciE, why are there sata versions and pata versions out there? There's no sata or pata connector on these cards it seems, the pci-e connector is all there is. Do they somehow use the sata/pata controller on the motherboard via the pci-e bus?

2nd question; would there be any way to boot from one of these? The bios has a bunch of options for booting up, network, usb, usb floppy, etc... but none for mini pci-e or anything like that...

Laptop is a presario C500, more precisely c551nr, broadcom 802.11b/g nic, 80gb toshiba 5400rpm slow ..... hard drive, and a celery 440 running the show..

Thanks in advance!
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post #2 of 5
5/26/09 at 8:52am
Welcome to NBF.

Are you asking if you're able to boot from your SSD or your miniPCIE?
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post #3 of 5
5/26/09 at 2:37pm
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Thanks!

The SSD would be the miniPCIe. They're like these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...pe=&srchInDesc=
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post #4 of 5
5/27/09 at 6:34am
I'm no expert on booting and some members on newegg mention that they needed bios updates to boot this on their eee's. However, if its just interpreted as a hard drive in the machine, I see no reason why you couldn't use a bootloader to chainboot it. With chainbooting, your BIOS does not have to support booting the device. The BIOS would only have to recognize the mini PCI-E hard drive in this case, which any BIOS on a machine with mini PCI-E should be able to do.

I have Linux on my machine and as such, I use Grub as my bootloader. It seems like it would be very easy to boot it with Grub and I'm tempted to buy one just to prove it.
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post #5 of 5
8/8/11 at 5:39pm

Hey, I also have a Presario C500, and I'd like to install Mini PCIe SSD if possible.

 

I could really use some VOE...So, How did your endeavor turned out?

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