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    solder mxm slot onto Acer Aspire 5315?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by sk8boy204, Mar 15, 2011.

  1. sk8boy204

    sk8boy204 Newbie

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    So I have had an acer aspire 5315 for almost 2 years now and its been great! I upgraded the cpu to a core2duo 2.2ghz without issue and have added 3gb of ram since that is all it accept (it blue screens with 4gb installed). Now my friend recently gave me a completely dead acer aspire 6920 after scavenging all the parts. It has an mxm slot on it and he left the video card that went with it. I checked out my laptop and plan to add the mini pcie slot since the pads are there just not the slot and i was also wondering if i could add a mxm slot? the pads are there on my motherboard and i am a pretty decent at soldering, could i take the mxm slot off the dead motherboard and use it in me 5315? heres a picture for reference:
    http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h101/sk8boy204/IMG_20110315_124641.jpg
     
    sk8boy204, Mar 15, 2011
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  2. Zeptinune

    Zeptinune Notebook Evangelist

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    I doubt your BIOS will support it, you could just try?
     
    Zeptinune, Mar 15, 2011
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  3. TehSuigi

    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    Welcome to the forums, sk8boy204!
    Someone tried this once before a year and a half ago - it didn't go well.
     
    TehSuigi, Mar 15, 2011
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  4. sk8boy204

    sk8boy204 Newbie

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    thank you very much for the reply and the advice from the other thread, since ferrrrr seems like he never finished the project maybe I'll pick up where he left off some day when I am feeling very adventurous.
     
    sk8boy204, Mar 16, 2011
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  5. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I think it would work. But there might be a few other things missing on the board (resistors and other components). Without those, there might not be any power supplied to the mxm slot. Also you would need the schematics to find a way to connect the MXM slot to the lvds output (might be as easy as moving 2 resistors). Unless the system has a mux.

    If there is a mux, you might have a dual graphics system after the mod, possible to use a "DIY ViDock Setup" usb flash drive to switch between the GPUs:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/418851-diy-vidock-experiences.html


    It would take a lot of time to solve all of the problems though, please post results if you try it.

    BTW if you want some more performance, try a PLL pinmod. I think your PLL is ics9lprs365, which has been modded before:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...pll-pinmod-overclocking-methods-examples.html
     
    moral hazard, Mar 16, 2011
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  6. niffcreature

    niffcreature ex computer dyke

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    niffcreature, Mar 16, 2011
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