Hey Sup Forumsents
Took my laptop apart to clean the fan.
Then I found this. What's the likelihood of it working, simply by soldering the missing usb-port to this board?
Hey Sup Forumsents
Gabriel Perez
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Samuel Johnson
If you do it correctly, very likely.
Owen Anderson
Location for it
The laptop is a Lenovo G580.
Would be sweet to have 4 usb-ports, instead of the 3 it comes with
Tyler Walker
I was always curious about this, PCB has place for a header, if you just solder it, will it work.
Never cared enough to actually backwards engineer anything.
Christopher Martin
Wait I thought there was originally a usb port there, never mind then, it won't work.
Elijah Young
i think you could just replace it with the same board from a different Lenovo model that has that port populated, like this one ebay.com
but no guarantees
Landon Brooks
Might give it a try
But as far as I can find, there is no difference on this board and the one I already have (a part from the port it self) it doesn't even miss any other components
Christopher Harris
follow the traces back and see if it goes to the controller
Nathaniel Ramirez
Multilayer PCB
Justin Kelly
Does the laptop chassis have a slot you can take off for it?
Xavier Bell
If you want, solder some wires to it and actually connect it to an appliance like a flash drive. IF you want to save some time first check to make sure 5v is available on the port in the first place with a meter.
Bentley Adams
Not as such. But I could always cut a slot in the plastic.
Don't have my meter handy at the moment
Colton Brooks
It probably isnt activated in the controler, soldering it there will do nothing, it is just a waste of time.
Nathaniel Ross
Anyway to activate it?
Jayden Rodriguez
Wash your hands, Op. You look like a brown person.
Jacob King
Can't run from that.
I am a brown person
James Davis
show the other side
also very likely you will need to solder in capacitors or other crap on the same board on top of port itself, and in the end getting a hub will be cheaper and 100% working
Kayden Wilson
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Grayson Turner
I don't see any difference between this and this so it will most likely work.
Fastest way is soldering a cut USB 2.0 cable into there, because it's much easier than just a socket.
Caleb Ortiz
Fire that sucker up and check for proper USB voltage.
Thomas Sanchez
Ewww, someone flush that poo down the loo!!!