laptop upgrades

[bios79]

Laptop: hp 15-bs112nv (Intel Core i7 @ 1.80GHz)

Motherboard: 832B (U3E1)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I cannot find detailed info about motherboard to see possible upgrades such as addition of m.2 or NVME combined with INTEL Optane. 

A link with the service manual would also be much appreciated

Thank you in advance!!

[Huffer]

Here is the Manual:

Manual

You can have an M.2 SATA-3 disk in addition to the hard drive but PCIe/NVME and Optane is not supported. 

[bios79]

If  a use a caddy instead of dvd my only option is m.2 sata 3?

I ask because 8550u supports optane, apparently my motherboard does not, am i right?

What about my PCI-E slots? speccy software shows 2 available (pls see screenshot). Is that true or i misunderstand sth?

Thank you for your quick reply, i do appreciate it!

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Takes more than the processor being theoretically able to support Optane. The rest of the hardware has to have it enabled, too. No laptop in that model series supports Optane or NVME. Period. A DVD drive caddy connects through a SATA port and limits whatever you put in the caddy to the speed of the SATA port and on a DVD drive the port is generally one SATA generation lower than the hard drive slot so likely only SATA-II and a disk in the DVD drive caddy cannot be the boot disk; only for storage. Those PCIe "slots" are not really open slots but virtual slots built into the motherboard. And even if you could put a disk in them, in order to have Optane or an NVME M.2, the slot has to be NVME enabled PCIe and on your machine it just ain't. It is what it is: sorry.