Solder on m.2 screw post.

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Installing m.2 components on my MSI GL65 Leopard that have pads for a 2nd drive.

Anyone have the name for these posts, I found the ones you screw into desktop MOBOs and thought I found the solder on ones but lost the site?

Other option is to modify the screw on type as long as I get the same height.

Thx, d.
 

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They call them SMT nuts. Googling SMT Solder Nuts shows these.

adafruit has them for sale
 
They call them SMT nuts. Googling SMT Solder Nuts shows these.

adafruit has them for sale
Ya, just ran into them a minute ago searching with similar search. The narrow end is too large, 4.25mm, for the nvme side which is about 3mm diameter. Not sure if it'll fit the hole on the MOBO, I forgot to measure that part.
 
mind explaining what you are building??
MSI left the components off for the 2nd m.2 slot on my laptop model, the 9SEK, so I'm going to fix their "mistake", 😉, because I wuv more storage.
So far I have a 2TB spinner for media and a 512GB for the OS in the 1st m.2 bay. I will put in a 2TB nvme in the 2nd slot once I added it for games.
 
So far I'm curious about c1571 and c1570 by the installed m.2 standoff if those are 2 components I need. Looking at a GL65 9sc, it doesn't look like there's any components there but it's a different board similar to mine that they left off the 1st m.2 slot, even the pads are gone. In section F there's two components but one is a capacitor the other is a resistor which are populated near the first m.2 slot, marked c1545 and r620, probably not related to the circuitry but have to double check.
The m.2 standoff hole is about 3 mm in diameter so those soldered on studs won't work.
 

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usually, when a manufacturer leaves something off to save money, they leave the power circuitry for it off as well as the connectors. also if you find the right solder on nut, they will have a lip that drops down in the MB and then you can solder it from the bottom or the top nut edge. (i just robbed one off a PCIE nvme adapter to put on a MB that had the slot but no nut at all. )
 
usually, when a manufacturer leaves something off to save money, they leave the power circuitry for it off as well as the connectors. also if you find the right solder on nut, they will have a lip that drops down in the MB and then you can solder it from the bottom or the top nut edge. (i just robbed one off a PCIE nvme adapter to put on a MB that had the slot but no nut at all. )
Ya, haven't thought of that, hopefully that's not the case on mine. The closed Reddit post from another person only talked about the 8 capacitors needed.
 
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