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Where does this cable go?

I am looking for a repair manual that shows the inside of a Dell Inspiron 1520 (laptop).  A buddy of mine gave me his to fix after someone else attempted to fix it.  I invited another buddy over to take a look at it as well.  We have it running again....however, there is a cable that is connected to the motherboard, but we cannot find where the other end connects to.  I suppose there's a small chance that it was a spare cable to install something new, but we have looked and cannot find where the other end would connect to.
       Does anyone of a repair manual they can share that shows the inside of the Inspiron 1520?  Everything else is working like a charm, another reason that makes this whole scenario even more confusing....lol!
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I will get the specifics of the cable when I get back home.  It connects on the right side of the laptop.  There's a connector that it was connected to when we took the laptop apart, but there was nothing connected at the other end.  The guy that worked on it before I did, left a couple of other things unplugged when he put it back together.  So, this is why we figured that this cable must also go somewhere, but like I mentioned, I suppose it could just be an extra cable (I don't think it's too likely).
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I will take a picture of it when I get home.....around 3:30pm EST....and post it on this post.   Like, I said it's the weirdest thing.  We took the cable and moved it in a 360 degree motion to see if there was anything close enough (within reach) for it to plug into......NOTHING....lol    Craziest thing I've seen in a long time.
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It was definitely some sort of expansion slot.