"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce)
01/09/2020 at 20:50 • Filed to: None
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"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce)
01/09/2020 at 20:50 • Filed to: None | 0
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I just bought an old Sager gaming laptop from the mid-late 2000s. Why? Because someone had one for sale for <100$ and I get to relive my gaming heydays of college on the cheap! Or.....I would......It just needs the hard drive and I now see why it was so cheap - it needs some sort of sata adapter or something. There is a vertical set of pins where the connector must sit on top of, that would then go to a 90 degree angle and end with a SATA female connector for a hard drive to slide into.
Problem is - I don’t know what to call that piece. I tried calling it an adapter or a bracket but that just got me the piece that turns the CD player slot into a place to put a second hard drive. I saw Dell/HP call a similar piece an “interposer” but that doesn’t seem to be the case for clevo boards.
Anyone out there able to help? What am I looking for?
Tekamul
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/09/2020 at 20:55 |
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That what you need?
If so, it’s a SATA m to f right angle adapter
SiennaMan
> Tekamul
01/09/2020 at 21:01 |
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This is what I was thinking of too based on the description..
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> Tekamul
01/09/2020 at 21:05 |
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I don’t think so, since it doesn’t have what I need to connect to the board. The laptop uses lots of pins. I snapped a quick pic of it here:
I did buy an adapter off Amazon though just in case. It was 5 bucks.
Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/09/2020 at 21:18 |
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It’s an HP part but it looks like what you may need.
Do you have the exact model number for the laptop? It would help narrow down the search.
facw
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/09/2020 at 21:35 |
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That looks difficult...
I found this terrible site with a bunch of adapters but I couldn’t stand staring at it long enough to see if there is something that would be a match: http://www.cmyhub.com/prolist/Latop-Hdd-Cable-Adapter_441.aspx
You might be better off just buying a 128GB USB stick (something small, like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07855LJ99 ) and running Windows off of that? Like this: https://www.pcmag.com/article/352209/how-to-run-windows-10-from-a-usb-drive . Flash drives aren’t really built for that, but it’s not hard to imagine a modern one being good enough compared to an old spinning disk. I don’t think you can do this with XP though, so it wouldn’t be period correct, and I have no idea what the driver situation would look like.
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ
01/09/2020 at 21:41 |
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Clevo M570TU is the board. Lots of brands used it.
And that part is almost what I need, but it needs to do a 90 degree angle. That part will connect with the board and let me plug in the hard drive, but it would be like loading an SNES whereas I want to load in the hard drive like load ing an original NES.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/09/2020 at 21:48 |
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Does it have an optical drive and do you need to or intend to use the optical drive? If not, there might be an alternative.
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
01/09/2020 at 21:50 |
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I do intend to use the optical drive as the machine can’t boot from USB. Need optical to install an OS to a drive.
Also I do intend to flip this at some point so no one will pay decent money for a machine that doesn’t have a hard drive.
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SiennaMan
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/09/2020 at 21:52 |
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You sure? The HP parts looks a little like it’d maybe mat e onto the black plastic bits sticking up next to the pins and achieve the 90 degree turn you need..
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> facw
01/09/2020 at 21:52 |
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I think I’m going to sell this laptop after I get my fix in and see if I can make a profit. I have a small pile of old ram sticks and processors from the era so I want to try my hand at getting that pile to shrink a bit while turning some money.
Plus, it can’t do boot from USB. At least, not without a BIOS flash and that is hard enough when you have windows installed. Don’t want to try it without a hard drive on an untested machine. Last thing I want is a BIOS update failure due to a sudden heat spike or something I’d catch if I played aorund in windows first.
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Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/09/2020 at 21:53 |
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This was the closest I could find to what would fit those pins, the others seem to rely on sliding over another set of contacts on the board. Any searches for an interposer bring up mostly Dell and HP results and nothing that would fit. I’d recommend seeing if a local repair shop may have anything but it seems like its an obscure enough part that most searches aren’t bringing up the right results. You might be better off replacing the optical drive with another drive bay if it uses SATA already.
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> SiennaMan
01/09/2020 at 21:59 |
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I posted elsewhere but I took a picture of the connector and I don’t think that part will mate up properly since what you’re describing is not how you usually mount up an adapter like that. Plus the pins have a bit of ride to them so that’s a no-go.
Jake, Yes, wearing khakis
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/09/2020 at 22:12 |
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A little pricey but looks to be the only place I can find one.
Its in Germany but they do international shipping
JMKarstetter
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/09/2020 at 22:12 |
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That looks exactly like the one HP used for a long time. I’m pretty sure if you were to buy one of them it would work.
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Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/09/2020 at 22:18 |
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This is about as close as I could get to finding that part, but at least it’s a rough idea of what it’s supposed to look like. I’m pretty sure it’s not an interposer that you need since the pin out on the board matches the same pinning on a SATA connector, it’s just the wrong style of plug. Best bet might be asking around any local computer repair shops to see if they have something that matches. Don’t go to a large chain shop though like Best Buy since they’re mainly trained to up-sell, but a local small shop should be pretty good about hoarding old parts that are harder to come by. I’d check my collection of parts but I’ve never encountered anything that used this style of connection.
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> Jake, Yes, wearing khakis
01/09/2020 at 22:20 |
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That’s the winner. It looks a lot like the other parts but the pins for the HP one don’t match up correctly. Unfortunately, 30$ + long ship time makes it tough to swallow. I’m going to see if the other adapters work well enough and maybe I can fashion some bracket supports for the adapter and go from there.
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JMKarstetter
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/09/2020 at 23:15 |
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The part he posted does sit in at a 90 degree angle, the way it attached is it sides over the pins. I did laptop and desktop repair for a number of years and am very familiar with these adapters HP was using. They were using them to save a small amount of space by removing the need to have room for the drive to slide, and having less hard
ware to secure the drive in as well.
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> JMKarstetter
01/10/2020 at 00:33 |
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The style is similar (someone posted the correct part) but the HP part has a unique pin arrangement compared to the clevo and the HP unit sits closer to the board itself compared to how the clevo pins seem to be built on a small stand to elevate the hard drive a bit . I did end up ordering the part as well as a few other adapters to see what works and what doesn’t. We’ll see.
I do enjoy how easy it is to access all the parts though. Simple doors and panels with screws cover up the hardware so access is easy. Nowadays you’re lucky if they let you change your own RAM let alone do a HD swap or a processor upgrade....
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/10/2020 at 05:23 |
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Any dead ones on eBay 'for patts' for cheap?