Lenovo Yoga 300-11IBR - Adding a SATA drive

Question

Hey! I have a laptop like the topic, Lenovo Yoga 300 with mounted (soldered) eMMC 32 GB. I wanted to add a WD 500 GB HDD to it. I turned on and I sa...

sk1977 · Accepted Answer

There is no connector on your disc. There is only a soldering field to which you can solder the socket. This "metal frame" is the nest. Inside there are plastics and contact plates.
You will not connect the drive without a socket.

lisek · Accepted Answer

Two cases have been described in the Lenovo forum
1. link , where the author after the purchase of the cable and the slot for the disc in accordance with the service manual link (pp. 62-63, elements described as FRU ...) finally got the message: Error Code: 0x6

2. Link_ procedureupgrade ie upgrade eEMMC 32GB to SSD with high capacity

As for 1. maybe on mb there was not mounted "general cargo: RC.?
These are plates based on the SoC cpu, i.e. Pentium N3720 (depending on the description of P / Nr.FRU on the board) all in one crystal: cpu, graphics, USB ports, SATA, memory controller.
The disc used there is the Lenovo Flex 3 platform (1120) or Bitland (BM5455_Ver1.3)
There is no SM, but in the ver. Bitland BM5999 the connector is described as
BM5999 is for laptops at cpu Atom pp. N455 Ideapad 10-3 / 2010 with TigerPoint BGA360 chipset, e.g. Intel NM10 ( link )
SM under BM5999 is for free on

Or connect to USB3.0 using the adapter for 17_funs Link_ Icy Box IB-AC603L 2.5inch SATA / SSD to USB 3.0 Adapter Cable

ps
on the Lenovo website are of. ripples under the model

Quote:
use upgrade (c0cn31ww.exe) for FLEX 3-1120 / Yoga 300-11IBY

Something was written on fr website Link_upgrade SSD

arczinosek · Answer

Thanks for the responses, I've still searched and found the forum where the problem is described exactly with the same motherboard:
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/re...ation-to-upgrade-a-motherboard-laptop.143079/
I will look for a damaged board with a socket and if I find a good price, I will try to solder. It looks like it should work then

lisek · Answer

I think a 17-fun adapter for USB3.0 is a better solution
Usb3.0 is spedde 5GB / s
SATA2 (because you get one on this CD) is about 3GB / s

ps
:idea:

without interfering with the disc, the required precision of soldering (socket +? maybe small-scale), and what if the hand is smeared and ... after the disc (road plate)
Pzemyśl.

Quote:
Measure ten times and cut once.

Szczygiello · Answer

Hey!

I have the same problem. I purchased an SSD and a cable to connect it to the Lenovo Yoga 300-11ibr laptop and after opening the computer, it turned out that there is no socket for connecting the above. cable:

In the solution from the page allaboutcircuits [kropka) com / threads / re ... ation-to-upgrade-a-motherboard-laptop.143079 / the author finally ordered the used motherboard and soldered out the needed socket. Unfortunately, in our secondary market, the motherboard is impossible to find, and buying a used laptop for ~ 400 PLN is pointless. The more so that the stimulant may also be deprived of this socket and there will be nothing to solder ...

In any case, the question is: is it possible to choose the right socket available in our market and without the need to order a minimum of 500 or 1000 items? I would be grateful for any help in the subject. Below are photos of approximately the cable plug, and ca. dimensioned place for SMD assembly of the socket:

Greetings!

boro1234567 · Answer

There is a big problem with buying this jack.
Once I did it with the consent of the owner of the equipment, I undressed the plug and soldered the wires directly to the pins on the board protecting the cable from pulling out.

przekrent · Answer

It took me about 30 minutes to connect the disk. The connector pinout in the board is analogous to the SATA connector pinout, I used the old SATA connector with HP DV6 to connect the disc. T +, T-, R +, R-, GND, + 5V

marekplaza · Answer

[quote = "translation"] It took me about 30 minutes to connect the disk. The connector pinout in the board is analogous to the SATA connector pinout, I used the old SATA connector with HP DV6 to connect the disc. T +, T-, R +, R-, GND, + 5V

hi, and could you please give the markings for the particular pins, because the picture is not visible. As you write, in SATA we have T +, T-, R +, R-, GND, + 5V, but how did you know where to connect? An additional question besides "date" 4 contacts, we have 3x GND and 3x + 5V or is there any one, eg up to + 12V pulled up?

greetings
brands

przekrent · Answer

You do not need help, just the simplest multimeter to check where the mass is, and where + 5V. The 2.5 "disc does not require any other power supply voltages, please also pay attention to the signal wires, they should be twisted as far as possible and covered with the screen. The final effect of my work looks different than what I showed in the picture.

spartan12 · Answer

Hello
I need to add a ssd disk to the same model. You can precisely mark on the disc which places are responsible for T +, T-, R +, R-, GND, + 5V.
From the diagram of the sata connector it follows but it would be good to see it on the album yet.
Thank you.

paco213 · Answer

Hello, today I struggled with connecting an additional SSD to the connector, as in the topic in the attachment, description of individual cables for children. After soldering the wires, I plugged the drive with the already installed Win10 on other hardware. The system reset and restarted several times without any complications. The internal disk is not seen in the disk manager. I didn't have to modify anything, I used the connector from an old laptop. Regards

Pedros050 · Answer

@ paco213 This connection has already been described in post # 3 / # 8.

hadessuk · Answer

Measuring continuity between the connector and the SATA plug:Code: text Expand Select all Copy to clipboard
SATA_CONN1
| 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| T+ |  T- | GND |  R- |  R+ |  GND  |    5V      |
This seems to match with the circuit photographed, with the 4 signal wires going to caps, and the GND and 5V groupings.

Electric_TM · Answer

Hello
I connect to the topic, because in such a laptop, on such a plate, without a socket, I soldered on a flexible cable, SATA connectors and everything seems to be fine. 6 wires: plus, minus, 4 signals.
The 2.5 "1 TB WD Black drive runs without problems, I have Win 10 installed and I'm playing.
Another one with plates works too.
BUT ...... the SSD Sandisk 240GB or Crucial BX500 240GB connected in this place is in the BIOS [not detected].
And GoodRam SSD 120GB is in the BIOS only GOODRAM, without a symbol or capacity.
Bios updated to the latest one available on the Lenovo website.
Someone can explain it to me and / or give me a solution?

hadessuk · Answer

My guess is that you didn't connect enough wires on the SATA side. You need 3 grounds and 3 5V connections on the SATA side. It's possible that a part of the disk interface isn't connected to one or both of those.

Electric_TM · Answer

I used the original, factory SATA connector from some laptop and connected all existing cables, including screens of TX and RX lines.

hadessuk · Answer

I meant that it's likely that not all the lines on the SATA side are connected to something on the PCB side. Did you check that all 3 ground pins and all 3 5V pins on the SATA connectors were connected to the motherboard?

jarekrajmund1982 · Answer

Hi, I have the same problem, everything is soldered correctly, the 250GB WD2500BEVT drive can see and I installed the system on it, Samsung's 320GB can also see it, but the CX400 Goodram SSD does not see it anymore (in bios Not Detected), currently I'm looking for some SSD that it will see ...