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    2510P users - can someone ID this?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by User Retired 2, Mar 12, 2009.

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    2510P users - could someone take a closeup pic of the southbridge chip with possible SATA I/O pins?

    If have a close view of the systemboard, could you please take closeup photo of the southbridge chip (front and back)? It would have Intel 82801HUB or 82801xxx printed on it, like this from a Macbook Air.. with the test points around it documented here http://www.maushammer.com/systems/mba/USB.html
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    A close up would help identify if there may be SATA I/O pin test points accessible. Of course if someone has a faulty systemboard, can remove the BGA southbridge chip and can trace out the SATA I/O pins to accessible points on the systemboard, it would be even better. Below are the pins of interested:

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    This thread points out there is likely an unused SATA controller operating in IDE compatible mode with F.0A bios (maybe native mode with "SATA Native mode=enabled" in earlier bios). This would then just need to have it's 4 sata I/O points identified to tap into as HP have not provided a standard SATA connector. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=352887&page=4 .
     
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