New England Need help in ID'ing a connector

[DeltaDon]

This is a mini 44 pin connector in a laptop and it is not a std size as found to mate with a hard drive's pins. I placed a SD card next to it for reference. I need to find a mating male so I can make a new ribbon cable to a PATA hard drive.

 

[SuperSVGA]

It reminds me of the AMPMODU 50/50 series, but I don't think those came in 44 pin variants.

Just eyeballing it looks like 1.27mm pitch, but you probably will want to measure to be sure.

 

[krebizfan]

What brand and model of laptop? Some of those are documented as to the manufacturers that used it.

 

[wrljet]

There are skinny pitch 44 pin connectors for laptop hard disks. That's a standard thing.

 

[modem7]

Are these the things described as: 44 pin IDE 2.5"

(2.5 inch)

 

[Plasma]

It's definitely smaller than 2.5" IDE based on the SD card. Maybe a 1.8" Micro IDE connector. Those drives have 50 pins, but 6 of them are "jumpers":

 

[DeltaDon]

A flex mylar ribbon cable plugs into this connector and had a std. 2.5" HDD connector at the other end which connects to the hard drive. The ribbon has to allow a 90 deg flex when the drive is mounted. The computer is a Clevo D470K (AMD Atlhlon 64) which differs from the D470P, D270P and D870P Intel CPU motherboards which all use a mylar cable with std. 44 pin connectors at both ends. I haven't found a service manual for the AMD motherboard model and the service manuals for the others don't help. I worked on a lot of Clevo's over the years with my laptop business, but this is the only AMD CPU laptop Dxxx laptop that I can recall seeing. All the other models in this series used Intel CPU's. Clevo resellers include Prostar, Sager and Eurocom brands. Maybe Alienware, but I've not seen any Alienware laptops of any of the Dx70 versions. I emailed Eurocom and they don't have any parts in inventory for a 20 year old Clevo.

 

[DeltaDon]

I spent some time yesterday removing a short from the motherboard. I have a SM340A protection diode on order to replace the blown component. I haven't attempted to power up the board yet to see if it boots since any of these Clevo laptops are a PITA to assemble and I'll wait until the diode arrives before fully assembling it. I might try to put the heatsinks and fans on it and plug in the LCD just to see if there's video and if so will do more with the connector if there's life. I think, not sure yet, that the connector is smaller than a PCMCIA card connector. I'll measure it later today, after the honey-do jobs are checked off.

 

[3lectr1c]

It looks like that would use a proprietary ribbon cable that would turn 90 degrees - probably not something I can find that was any sort of standard.

 

[3lectr1c]

I found this possible match but it's out of stock. Not listed for this exact model, but it might be what it looks like?

 

[DeltaDon]

Interesting. I wonder if someone tried to use that one in this D470K. The blown diode was an over voltage protection diode which appears to be related to the hard drive circuit. The cable has the correct connector, but appears to be SATA and the motherboard 44 traces do match the PATA pattern with grounds, voltage etc on the correct pins. Plus the drive bay isn't set up for dual HDD's. I guess if I grabbed that one that I could salvage the connector (toss the rest) and rewire it for PATA. Lots of maybes.

 

[3lectr1c]

Unfortunately it was a link to AliExpress already marked as "out of stock" on google, and just 404'd when I clicked it.

 

[Plasma]

How about this?

 

[DeltaDon]

I did some digging into the 43-D90T0-0B0 which lead me to the 4390T0-0A0 which lead me to the 43-D40U0-010 and I think that's the correct one. One was listed on the UK eBay site in April, but it sold. There's a second complete one with a hard drive elsewhere and I'm attempting to order it. If not at least I have the P/N and have stored it in eBay if one ever pops up.

 

[DeltaDon]

The correct PATA/IDE cable looks like photo below: