Help identifying components in AIW system

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I got this old security card scanner/encoder computer form my work today. Its pretty nice considering the age but we are replacing them with regular SFF PC's with touchscreen LCD's.

The specs are pretty nice and I am thinking it will make for a great carputer setup once I get things clean, upgraded and such.

Specs:
Pentium III 333mhz (Mobile Pentium II)
32MB PC100 RAM (I've since upgraded to 256MB PC100)
2GB laptop-style HDD
12.1" TFT LCD Touchscreen
Floppy drive
DVD support (No drive built-in)
USB Support
Standard IDE + E-IDE connections
NIC 10/100
PCMCIA Ports (2)

It has Windows 95 loaded on it now, which is my big hurdle... the damn thing doenst have a CD-ROM so I'm trying to run one from the IDE connection and power it from my main computer.... the major downside of this thing is it doesnt have any standard power outputs, its very similar to a laptop in its construction.

Can anyone help me identify this mainboard and component information? I'm trying to figure out what all the connectors on the mainboard go to... there are a lot and they are all "CON1" "CON2" "CON3", etc...

Here is all I could really find on it. Looks to be made by DFI, atleast the top layerboard with the outputs, power and PCMCIA... but they mate together with a propriatary set of connectors so they should both be under ths same name. The LCD panel is made by ELO TouchSystems and drivers for it should be easy to gather.

Here are pics of the system and of the board.
VingStaion
vingstation1.jpg

Mainboard
vingstation2.jpg

'DFI Tiger ST Series'
vingstation3.jpg


EDIT: Specs from DFI, both minimal and optional levels.


Thanks for the help,
~Kris
 
interisting find. looks like it could be a cool project. keep us updated on your findings
 
Okay, more accurate specs but I still dont know what any of the connectors do...

Looks like I need to find a P3 mobile 933 to cram in this bitch! :) XP may be possible afterall.

~Kris
 
Bumpy -- the CPU is weird.... it isnt a standard Pentium3 or P3-mobile... It's like a card with 2/3 connectors on it. I'll take a picture tonight... my camara died last night so I couldnt then... I am trying to find an upgraded CPU but am not having much luck. If I can get a 600mhz+ I'll be happy as that will be plenty to feed XP/MediaEdition and run MP3's.

The processor is a card identical to this one... the problem is unlike every PII/PIII I'm seeing listed on EBAY that has a single LARGE connector, mine has two smaller connectors like the older PentiumI mobile cards have....

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Pentium-I...807309636QQcategoryZ86714QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Here is what my connector type looks like
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-INTEL-Celer...807127867QQcategoryZ31532QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Seems the Celeron's get that connector type... but mine is a PentiumII/III 333mhz so that doesnt make sense.

Anyone have any thoughts?

~Kris
 
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