USB3 mini-pcie card at HP 8710

[nkar]

I just bought a mini PCI-e card NEC with 2 USB3 ports

I installed it in place of my 8710p but it is recognised ONLY IF
i boot with the original 4965 intel wifi mini PCI-e and hot swap it during windows 7 sleep

After hot swapping it works fine and with great speed with my external
USB3 hard disk.
I plan to connect both an internal hard disk with a usb3--> sata in the dvd-rom bay
and an external usb3 port

My problem is how to make it work without hot swapping?

I tried both 8710 unwhitelisted bios

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-b...10p-2510p.html


and Bios from:

This is no request thread! HP COMPAQ bioses, how to modify the bios?

with no success.

If I boot with the usb3 mini-pci installed the card is disabled and no
matter what i do it can not be seen from windows.(but i get NO ERRORS
during boot)

I also tried
vidock
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gami...ml#post6295529

without success

Any HELP?

Thank you

[nando4]

Originally Posted by nkar

My problem is how to make it work without hot swapping?

I had exactly the same problem with my 2510P when attaching a DIY ViDock via the mPCIe slot. Unless the HP bios sniffs a wifi card on bootup it disables the port.

The workaround is to use the anti-whitelisting feature of DIY ViDock Setup 1.x. Do that by:

1. Boot with wifi card installed. Save a PCI dump of the port it uses with 'iport save 2'
2. Swap in the USB 3.0 card, ensure it appears in 'lspci -tv' output
3. Perform a PCI compaction on the USB 3.0 card:

compact pciend 100000000 useonly [PCI-ID of USB3 card] makebatch %DRV%:\config\pci.bat

4. 'edit %DRV%:\config\startup.bat' to contain

# restore whitelisted mPCIe port
call iport restore

# Configure PCI space to accomodate the USB 3.0 card
call pci

# Chainload into Win7 
call grub4dos w7

5. Reboot, boot via DIY ViDock Setup 1.x bootitem, select "automated startup via startup.bat". If you have a disk image install then when it chainloads back to the bootitem select Win7 on the second instance.

[nkar]

Thanks it worked with vidock

I booted 1st with the original wifi minipci and saved a PCI dump of port 2
then shudown and insert the USB3 miniPCI

Boot again with:

#enable minipci port 2

call iport on 2

#restore whitelisted

call iport restore

#configure PCI

call pci

#Boot windows 7
call grub4dos w7



Now i have 2 extra usb3 ports
I think I will use one for an internal sata disk
and the 2nd for an external port
(i will remove the dvd bay

[So7t]

Originally Posted by nkar

I just bought a mini PCI-e card NEC with 2 USB3 ports

Where did you buy that mini-pci usb3 card ?
I wil try to instal it on my Acer !!

[nkar]

I bought it from pridopia at e-bay
If i would buy again i would buy one with low profile connectors
such as
USB3.0 Half Mini Card--USB3.0 Host & Peripheral

or

http://www.globalamericaninc.com/p15...duct_info.html

because the one i got needs hardware modification to fit to my laptop
(mainly the connection cable between the mini-pcie card and the usb3 ports uses big connectors

Also you need power (I think only 5 v are needed alhough the card i bought has a normal power connector)

But with my tests with a powered external hard disk it seems that it works even without connecting the
power connector
I don't know what will happen with an unpowered device (such as a USB flash) if you don;t give power
to the card

Finally

I tried many different drivers
It seems that with the card I got there are some compatibilty problems with seagate flexdisk usb3 (unpowered)
even if I connect power to the mini pci card (It is picked as a USB2 device)

But my powered ICYdock is working fine

[entity00]

Hi,
I'm also looking for a mini-PCIe USB3.0 card, but I need a "half mini PCIe" one, because my laptop (ASUS G73JH) has not enough space.

With that said, the IO Interconnect card would be ideal, but they don't seem to sell to retail customers (just OEM's). The Global American one is not half mini-PCIe and would not fit.

Any hints on where to find an alternative half mini-PCIe USB3.0 card somewhere else?
Thanks in advance.
Best,
EnTiTy

[dtd00d]

Sorry to revive a dead thread, but could anyone here link to a USB3 mini pcie (mpcie) card? I found this one on eBay but I'd like to try and find one in the US.

Mini PCI-e USB 3.0 Express Card 2 Port NEC chip | eBay

Alternatively, is there a cheap mpcie to Expresscard adapter somewhere?

[entity00]

I wonder where does it get the power from (see the right plug on the right end side of the second picture)?

I have an ASUS G73JH and I've also been looking for one of those adapters for quite a while...

Furthermore the adapter going inside the laptop will require that the cable is mounted vertically, not exactly the preferred setup for a laptop...

Best,
EnTiTy