What is this slot? DV7 series notebook

I have a HP Pavilion dv7-3060us Windows 7 64 bit system: under the 2nd hard drive cover near the graphics chip and little battery there is a slot looks almost like a PCI slot or something. Can anyone tell me what this is for or what can be plugged into it?

Hi,
You're welcome
HP does not offer a graphics chip upgrade and I would strongly suspect the Bios has a 'whitelist' of what hardware can connect to this slot.
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