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[XLNC]

Hi, I have this Probook 470 G2 runinig windows 10 pro with I3 - 4030u.

Would you please tell me what motherboard is on my laptop?

I want to upgrade the laptop with a ssd on motherboard but I dont know if my motherboard suports M2 sata or m2 pcie nvme or not. Would be helpfull if you guys tell me what EXACTLY slots I got on motherboard in order to know what options I have.

Lots of thanks in advance!

[Huffer]

The motherboard is an HP 470 G2. The motherboard is a specific design for your laptop. Unique and proprietary. Other than a 2.5 inch SATA bay for a 2.5 inch hard drive or SSD there are no other slots available to add an M.2 disk. Your laptop is just a little too old for that and definitely too old for a PCIe/NVME M.2 disk. 

2.5 inch bay circled in red

Post back with any more questions and please accept as solution if its the info you needed even if not exactly what you wanted to hear. 

[XLNC]

Thank you for your response.

Excuse me but seems you either didn`t understand what I wrote or you have no ideea what a motherboard is.

First of all, 470 G2 is the name of the laptop not the name of a motherboard. Second, you posted a picture with the bottom of a laptop NOT a motherboard.

I didn`t ask how to put a ssd in hdd bay but ON MOTHERBOARD (you can google `motherboard`).

Furthermore, surfing the web I learned the motherboard I have on my laptop have a M2 slot (is not `too old`) but I don`t know What kind is. M2 key B, M2 key M and so on, But probably this is foreign language for you sir who posted a bottom of a laptop for a question involving a MOTHERBOARD!

Thank you again for response but NO use in it!

[Huffer]

There is no name for the motherboard other than it is the motherboard for a 470 G2 is the point I was trying to get across. HP designs it and makes it only for this laptop and it is only referred to by the HP Part number. The picture I gave is the laptop with the back cover removed and shows where access is available to the motherboard. The Service Manual makes no mention of an M.2 slot and HP did not offer an M.2 disk as an option. Indeed the motherboard has what appears to be a 2260 form factor M.2 slot next to the wireless card slot but access could only be achieved by removing the motherboard from the chassis. Here is an image of the motherboard with the slot I am referring to circled:

possible M.2 slot

HP is known to make laptop motherboards with disabled M.2 slots and the fact that it is not mentioned in the Service Manual leads me to think maybe it is disabled. Assuming it is not, the age of the hardware dates to before PCIe/NVME M.2 disks were a thing so if it is a working M.2 slot it appears to be a 2260 form factor and would take a 2260 SATA M.2 similar to this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/LiteOn-J8-L1032-11-32GB-M-2-2260-60-mm-SSD-B-M-Internal-Solid-State-Hard-Dr...

All M.2 slots are physically the same and can handle a "B" (2 prong) or "B + M" (3 prong) connection slipped into the slot. 

This is the best information you are going to get. HP does not publish any more detailed specifications for its laptops or motherboards. The slot is there and you may find it disabled or you may find that an M.2 as I described above works in it. Up to you to experiment. Good luck. 

[XLNC]

Thank you for your response.

"There is no name for the motherboard other than it is the motherboard for a 470 G2 is the point I was trying to get across. HP designs it and makes it only for this laptop and it is only referred to by the HP Part number." If you google the part number from the label in your picture you posted you wiil see hoe wrong you are. Even this MB you posted is a part of noumeros Laptops NOT ONLY for 470 G2. The part Number is 768399 501 google it an you`ll see!

If the MB you present is indeed in 470 G2, seems like is M2 2242, considering the wifi card is 2 cm there is not room there for 3 times a wificard.

NVMe apeard in 2011, my laptop is manufactured in 2014 and I boughted in 2015.

Then you say that a slot can be present on MB but maybe is disabled!!!!

Do you see a single reason for a slot to be present but disabled?????

I know HP is a serious company and I don`t see the point to have a slot disabled on the motherboard.

The slot present in the picture seems to be M key so you are wrong AGAIN ... B key ssd are NOT SUPPORTED.

[Huffer]

I don't know what you are eating for breakfast but maybe switch to decaf? You are right there is no reason for the slot to be disabled and yet if you spent any time here as I have then you would know sometimes they are on HP motherboards. Sometimes in a model series the slot only works on certain hardware configurations as for example only works on i7 with dedicated video.  Now I surmise the slot is 22 mm wide as all M.2 slots are 22mm wide and I eyeballed the length of the wireless slot and the space provided on the M.2 seems a bit more than a 42mm length and a bit less than an 80mm length hence 60 mm. If I had the board as you do I could measure it and I encourage you to do just that. Have you ever actually installed an M.2 disk into an M.2 slot? I have many many times and you can put a B + M OR an M only into the same two chambered slot so you are missing the boat there. I don't really care when NVME was announced as a standard it did not generally appear in laptops until 6th gen Intel Core although you find a few as far back as 4th gen just not any HPs I know of except the Mobile Workstations. Again good luck to you.  

[XLNC]

"All M.2 slots are physically the same and can handle a "B" (2 prong) or "B + M" (3 prong) connection slipped into the slot. "

You wrote this a post before ... now you modifiy and ask me what I have for breakfast?????

B keyed slot in your mind is physically the same with M keyed slot ?????

I don`t want what you smoke!

Please Do not answer anymore to my question, your answers are useless.

[Huffer]

If you actually did anything with the computer you would see I am right and you are wrong. 

Almost 5500 solutions here and I have finally run into the one person who can expose me as a fraud. What are the odds?