Samsung NC10 hacked to accommodate second mini PCI-e slot
By Donald Melanson 
posted January 25th 2010 2:57PM
posted January 25th 2010 2:57PM
Samsung's NC10 may be getting a tad long in the tooth in the world of netbooks, but it still has its share of fans out there, some of whom are intent on stretching the netbook to its limits. One such individual is Graeme of the SammyNetbook forums, who amazingly managed to add a second mini PCI-e slot to the netbook that he's used to add a Broadcom HD decoder card. Of course, that mod is somewhat eased by the fact that the NC10 actually has a space and the necessary wiring for a second slot, but Graeme still did have to put his soldering skills to use, and simply hope that the NC10's BIOS recognized the extra PCI-e device (it did). Feeling a little brave? Then hit up the link below for all the necessary details and some pics of the process.
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@owned66
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That is a noteworthy tech hack! Good work Graeme
I applaud anybody with the nerve to solder a mini PCi-e. I've done it once, and I swear the stress knocked a couple years off my life. :D
I've seen extra slots like this in HP before where it (BIOS) would only allow for certified HP hardware to be working off that slot. So lets hope this one is different.
@DeFlanko
Ohh and it looked like the only thing that would fit in those slots would be its Wifi-N card.
Man I'm jealous. And a little bummed that netbook manufacturers didn't bother spending the extra $0.50 it would've cost to put that in in the first place. Anyone know if this'll work on an EeePC 900HA? Daddy needs a pci-e mini video card!
Wish there was an easy way to see what nebooks / nettops / motherboards have this unused port. The only machine I know of with 2 Mini-PCIe slots built-in is the Dell Studio Hybrid.
Very, very cool! Keep up the good work!
Woah, didn't even know they made HD decoding mini PCIe cards.
Very cool. Wonder what other cards would be available?
It seems that no one is using ExpressCard anymore (sadly)..Maybe instead of making it faster with ExpressCard 2.0 they should have also made it smaller, but then I guess it wouldn't be compatible with older devices...must suck to be a member of an interest group \ committee for mobile hardware standards :P
I did this to my Dell Mini 9 and Dell Mini 1010 successfully months ago and added a SIM card slot for AT&T to both pretty much the same way. Just soldiering on the headers.
Is there any particular reason why you've put an English forum thread through Google translate?
http://sammynetbook.com/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?44716
Looking at that thread, the NC10 models with HSDPA modem already have the second socket soldered in. Nice to hear that there are proper Windows and Linunx drivers for the Broadcom card now as well.