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[hibeeslass]

Hi Can anyone help me i have a laptop at work it's an HP/Compaq laptop and underneath on the bottom left hand corner there is a little piece of plastice that pops in and out its kinda like an adapter of some sort any ideas what it adapts lol?

TIA x

[squarebear]

Please tell me it isn't your CD/DVD drive.

[hibeeslass]

No it comes right out of a slot.....i'm a wee bit more savvy than that lol....................

[ChuckFickens]

Id guess it's the cover for either a PCMCIA slot (old) or express card slot (new)

does it look like this

http://bixnet.net/ima...A-Insert-Notebook.jpg

If so it's a general expansion slot that can be used for several things (though these days is rarely used for anything)

[hibeeslass]

Thanks Chuck what 'things' would it have been used for? What is an express card and yes it looks like that.....

[ChuckFickens]

For most users point of view PCMCIA slots and express card slots are used for the same thing, they are not compatible with each other, so a PCMCIA card wouldn't work in an express card slot but the end use of them is essentially the same.

the most common thing I've seen PCMCIA slots used for is either wired or wireless network cards, but with new laptops having both built in that use has become largely obsolete.

they can also be used to add ports that your laptop may not have, such as a serial port, firewire port, parallel printer port or other items such as TV tuner cards or even another graphics card.

As I said, they are pretty much just a generic expansion slot.

[hibeeslass]

Thank you for all your help.

[jaydah]

blimey its pre-historic....donate to 3rd world & update with new.

[squarebear]

All Mine - Portishead

[ChuckFickens]

Errrr, are you on the wrong thread SB ? :)

[squarebear]

Oops! I wondered where that had gone! lol